Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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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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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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