There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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