The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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