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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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If 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.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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