Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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