To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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