Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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