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. JOHNSONKnowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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