To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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