It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNever miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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…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 we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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