Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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