If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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.
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