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Lyndon B. Johnson

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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Difference Land People Unity
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Failure Human Peace War Weapon
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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Change Difference Nation World
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Inspirational Life Lose Motivational Ourselves Success Win
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Journey Peace Time
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Ability Bad People Talent Waste
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
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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Himself Play Sports Walk
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Generation Ourselves Worth
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Act Evil Past Present
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Problem Right Wisdom
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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Fast Responsibility Trouble
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Face Loss Yourself
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Myself Room Strange Writing
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Morning Oneself Reading
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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Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Funny History Politics
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
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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Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself

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