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“I am not describing a distant utopia, but the kind of education which must be the great urgent work of our time. By the end of this decade, unless the work is well along, our opportunity will have slipped by.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ‘wartime’ President.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men—and closes its hearts to none.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
—Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)
“Every President wants to do right.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)