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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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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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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 tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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