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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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