Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJustice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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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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