If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONTo hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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