The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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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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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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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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…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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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