If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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