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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJerry 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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