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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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