If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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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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…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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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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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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 know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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