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.
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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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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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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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