There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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