Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhile you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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