Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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