The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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 Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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