When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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