We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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