Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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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.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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