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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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.
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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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