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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhen 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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