Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONGreater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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