Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONPeace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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…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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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.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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