No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDemocrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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