The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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