Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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