The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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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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