Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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