We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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