Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 5

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• Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

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  Environment

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• I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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  Hook, Juicy, Middle

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• The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

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  Government, People, Littles

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1040, Best Books on

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• Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

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  Football, Country, Games

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• This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

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  Mother, Father, Parent

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.593, Best Books on

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• Come now. let us reason together.

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  Presidential, Together, Reason

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

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  Mother, Two, Essentials

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

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  Powerful, Future, Space

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• I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

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  Party, Heart, Pride

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• It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

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  People, Way, Apollo

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

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  Oil, Rivers, Toxic Waste

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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

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  Education, School, Destiny

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• A man without a vote is man without protection.

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  Patriotic, Men, Vote

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• I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

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  Believe, Patriotic, Destiny

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

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  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

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  Country, Space, Agency

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• Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

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  Success, Leadership, Knowing

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

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  Real, Self, America

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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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  Stars, Men, Diversity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

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  Two, Kind, Subjects

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

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  Country, War, Adversity

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• All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

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  Phones, Needs, Answers

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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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  Thinking, Agreement, Liberty

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• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

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  Wise, Age, Employment

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• Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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  Mean, Thinking, Division

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.599, Best Books on

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