While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find 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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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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