I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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