If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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