Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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