I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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 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.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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