In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONA 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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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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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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 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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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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The 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.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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