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. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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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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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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