Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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