If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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