In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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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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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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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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.”
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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