If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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