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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Ambition 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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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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