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.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt 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.”
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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