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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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 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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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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