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Lyndon B. Johnson has 302 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
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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…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
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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…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up…
— James Hansen
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Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw…
— H. L. Mencken
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the…
— Edward Everett
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Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at…
— James Madison
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
— Adam Smith
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