It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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