In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’m the only president you’ve got.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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