Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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 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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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