If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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…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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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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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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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