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. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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 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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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