I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Until 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.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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