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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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We 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.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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