Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOne hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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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.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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