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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 Their Hands Or Miters On Their Heads, Shifts The Scene Of Pleasure With Endless Variety, Bids All The Forms Of Beauty Sparkle Before Them, And Gluts Them With Every Change Of Visionary Luxury.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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Many Have No Happier

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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 Their Hands Or Miters On Their Heads, Shifts The Scene Of Pleasure With Endless Variety, Bids All The Forms Of Beauty Sparkle Before Them, And Gluts Them With Every Change Of Visionary Luxury.

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To Conclude That Women Are Unfitted To The Task Of Our Historic Society Seems To Me The Equivalent Of Closing Male Eyes To Female Facts.

I Am Proud To Be A Member Of A Party That Opens Its Doors To All Men--and Closes Its Hearts To None.

Knowledge Is Of Two Kinds: We Know A Subject Itself, Or Know Where To Find It.

You Do Not Examine Legislation In The Light Of The Benefits It Will Convey If Properly Administered, But In The Light Of The Wrongs It Would Do And The Harms It Would Cause If Improperly Administered.

Every Man Has A Right To A Saturday Night Bath.

If Government Is To Serve Any Purpose It Is To Do For Others What They Are Unable To Do For Themselves.

The Test Before Us As A People Is Not Whether Our Commitments Match Our Will And Our Courage; But Whether We Have The Will And Courage To Match Our Commitments.

It (the Heart) Is Supposed In Popular Language, To Be The Seat Sometimes, Of Courage, Sometimes Of Affection, Sometimes Of Honesty, Or Baseness.

A Man Can Take A Little Bourbon Without Getting Drunk, But If You Hold His Mouth Open And Pour In A Quart, He's Going To Get Sick On It.

The Atomic Bomb Certainly Is The Most Powerful Of All Weapons, But It Is Conclusively Powerful And Effective Only In The Hands Of The Nation Which Controls The Sky.

The Poor Suffer Twice At The Rioter's Hands. First, His Destructive Fury Scars Their Neighborhood; Second, The Atmosphere Of Accommodation And Consent Is Changed To One Of Hostility And Resentment.

I Am Concerned About The Whole Man. I Am Concerned About What The People, Using Their Government As An Instrument And A Tool, Can Do Toward Building The Whole Man, Which Will Mean A Better Society And A Better World.

I Won't Have You Electioneering On My Doorstep. Every Time You Get In Trouble In Parliament You Run Over Here With Your Shirttail Hanging Out.

'all Men Are Created Equal', 'government By Consent Of The Governed', 'give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'. Well, Those Are Not Just Clever Words, Or Those Are Not Just Empty Theories.

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 And Negligence, And Great Designs Which Are Defeated By Inexperience. In Age, We Have Knowledge And Prudence, Without Spirit To Exert, Or Motives To Prompt Them; We Are Able To Plan Schemes, And Regulate Measures, But Have Not Time Remaining To Bring Them To Completion.

You've Got To Work Things Out In The Cloakroom, And When You've Got Them Worked Out, You Can Debate A Little Before You Vote.

Education Will Not Cure All The Problems Of Society, But Without It No Cure For Any Problem Is Possible.

Education Is Not A Problem. Education Is An Opportunity.

We Still Seek No Wider War.

The Time Has Come When We Cannot Be So Careless. Unless We Do Better, We May Suffer Through A Stark Emergency Of The Environment. We May Create A Hostile World: A World To Bruise Ourselves Against; A World Of Sprawling Cities, Unplanned Or Badly Planned; A World Whose Water Is Full Of Sludge, Whose Winds Are Full Of Soot; A World Whose Landscape Has Been Totally Neglected, Stripped, Marred, And Wasted. All Of This Need Not Happen If We Choose Well, And Particularly If We Plan Well And If We Act Well.

There Is No Excuse-and We Should Call A Spade A Spade-for Chemical Companies And Oil Refineries Using Our Major Rivers As Pipelines For Toxic Waste. There Is No Excuse For Communities To Use Other People's Rivers As A Dump For Their Raw Sewage.

Our Purpose In Vietnam Is To Prevent The Success Of Aggression. It Is Not Conquest, It Is Not Empire, It Is Not Foreign Bases, It Is Not Domination. It Is, Simply Put, Just To Prevent The Forceful Conquest Of South Vietnam By North Vietnam.

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If We Fail Now, Then We Will Have Forgotten In Abundance What We Learned In Hardship: That Democracy Rests On Faith; Freedom Asks More Than It Gives; And The Judgment Of God Is Harshest On Those Who Are Most Favored.

All The Historians Are Harvard People. It Just Isn't Fair. Poor Old Hoover From West Branch, Iowa, Had No Chance With That Crowd;nor Did Andrew Jackson From Tennessee. Nor Does Lyndon Johnson From Stonewall, Texas. It Just Isn't Fair.

The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies Should Be Free For Exploration And Use By All Countries. No Country Should Be Permitted To Advance A Claim Of Sovereignty.

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