We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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