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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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