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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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