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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Lesson Live Past Wisdom
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Generation Ourselves Worth
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
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. JOHNSON

Difference Land People Unity
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
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Ambition Comfortable Creation Future Men Present Purpose Reality Satisfaction Time
All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Inspirational Worst
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Friendship Himself
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Believe Leadership Price Time
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Eyes Goodness Policy Power

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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