Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLife is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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 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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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