There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAmbition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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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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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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…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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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