Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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