Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONUntil 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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A 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.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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