All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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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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