The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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