Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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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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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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