If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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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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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.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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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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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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