I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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