The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Peace 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 Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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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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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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…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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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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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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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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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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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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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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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