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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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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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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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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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