To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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 government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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