I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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 poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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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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