As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHeck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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 guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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