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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLight at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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