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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLight at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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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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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’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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