We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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