Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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