Lyndon B. Johnson on play
Lyndon B. Johnson93 quotes“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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson 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. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. Johnson
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I will be playing until the sun up.
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Payton Olivia WPayton Olivia W I’ve grown tired of playing the warrior In the battle between me And my demons.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown I hope you find someone who dances to the beat of your soul, so you never have to sit alone in life while the music plays.
A.J XanderA.J Xander Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Take a bow, lover you played the part so well you almost had me believing.
TMCTMC In the stage of life, no role is less majestic. Just play your role in perfection, that’s it.
BelaBela We used to play with barbies and when we grew up, we willingly became dolls in the hands of men, i guess we just miss our childhood games.
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