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. JOHNSONYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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