The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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