Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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 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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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