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History Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- 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.…
- For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
- Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural…
- 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the…
- This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any…
- Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
- History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . ..…
- If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
- Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough