I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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…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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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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