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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJustice 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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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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