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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
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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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Change Difference Nation World
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
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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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Friendship Himself
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Equality Justice Myself
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Believe Education Investment Money Myself Yourself
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Democracy Politics

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