Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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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 is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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