"You do not take a man who for……" — Lyndon B. Johnson
"You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying you are free to compete with all the others, and still justly believe you have been completely fair...We seek not just freedom but opportunity...not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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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…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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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…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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