I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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