Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’m the only president you’ve got.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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…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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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’m the only president you’ve got.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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