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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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