I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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