In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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 want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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