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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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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.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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