Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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