I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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