You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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