A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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