If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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