You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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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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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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 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.
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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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