In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDemocrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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