I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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