It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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 do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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.
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If 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.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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