We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhile you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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