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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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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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