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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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