Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIt’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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