Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
• It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
• 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…
• I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
• Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or…
• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office…
• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or…
• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
• If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes…
• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
• ...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…
• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it…
• So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest…
• I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.…
• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;…
• A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity…
• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which…
• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness…
• A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom…
• He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such…

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