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.
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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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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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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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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