Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhen 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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