…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.
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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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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 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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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