Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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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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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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