To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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