Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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