Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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A 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.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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