You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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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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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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