27 August: Lyndon B Johnson Quotes

This date in 1908 was the birthdate of Lyndon B Johnson. 10 quotes from him.

1. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

2. Until justice is blind to colour, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the colour of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

3. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

4. Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

5. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

6. We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

7. You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

8. If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

9. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

10. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

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