Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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