Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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.
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