John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONUntil 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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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 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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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