As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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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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Until 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.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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