In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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 plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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