You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBetter to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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