There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNever miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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