We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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