It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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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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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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