Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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 know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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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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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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