I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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