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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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…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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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.
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