Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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