Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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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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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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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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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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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