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. JOHNSONIt’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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