Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONKnowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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