The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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’m the only president you’ve got.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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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.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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If 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.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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