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. JOHNSONPeace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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