I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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