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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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