All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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 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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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