When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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