Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHeck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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 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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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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