Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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