Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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