Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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