Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONA 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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