You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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.
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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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