I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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