Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBeing 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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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