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Lyndon B. Johnson

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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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Discover Education Job Journey Nation
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Acceptance Myself Seek Yourself
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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Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Human Issues Right Struggle
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
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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Difference Land People Unity
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
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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Funny History Politics
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
We 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.
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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
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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Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
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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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Ability Bad People Talent Waste

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