I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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