Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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