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. JOHNSONDemocracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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