I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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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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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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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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