We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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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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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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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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