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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Inspiring #Peace #Military
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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.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Powerful #Wall #Men
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“I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Two #Air #Years
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“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Inspirational #Light #Government
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“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Wise #Inspiration #Patriotic
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“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Friday #Sunday #Weekend
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“Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Friends #Political #Tents
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“We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Education #Money #Believe
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“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Stars #Sleep #Patriotic
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“Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Education #Problem #Cures
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“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Men #Self #Civilization
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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.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Government #Presidential #Purpose
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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.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Civilization #Water #Development
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“Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Conservative #Republican #Democrat
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“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Patriotic #Men #Thinking
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“Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Art #Carpe Diem #People
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“In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Citizens #Taxation Without Representation #Revolution
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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.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Country #Responsibility #Presidential
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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Morning #Humorous #Swimming
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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.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Burden #Mayors #Heavy
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“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Land #Immigration #Culture
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“A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Presidential #Political #Tasks
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“There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Office #Political #Politics
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“Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Men #Wife #Church
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“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Time #Fog #Dumb
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“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Spiritual #America #Israel
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“We must open the doors of opportunity.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Opportunity #Doors
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“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Learning #Talking
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“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
#Lbj #Guardian #Gates
