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. 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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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