Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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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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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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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