The best Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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The best Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, after serving as vice president of John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative and senator.

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Future Yesterday

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

signing the Wilderness Act on Sept 3, 1964

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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Whole generations have forgotten history.

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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

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Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

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deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

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The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Who told you, you have to live like today when you want to live today like tomorrow?

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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

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It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

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For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

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We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

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