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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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When 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.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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