The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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