I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONTo hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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