Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

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  Color, America, Justice

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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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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  Education, Problem, Cures

  Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education, July 21, 1965.

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• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Trouble, Deny

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.910, Best Books on

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• Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

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  Conservative, Republican, Democrat

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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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  Hype, History, Political

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• The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

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  Stupid, Organization, Boots

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• Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Wisdom

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• There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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  Office, Political, Politics

  "Presidential Anecdotes" by Paul F. Boller, 1981.

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• Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

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• While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

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  Saving, Faces, Losing

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• Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

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  Past, Evil, Presidential

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.876, Best Books on

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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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  Football, Nice, Dumb

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• There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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  Relationship, Unity, Together

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• If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

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  Lines, Politics, Rooms

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• I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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  Favors, Want, Policy

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• The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

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  Boys, Made, Princeton

  Cited in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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• Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

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  Home, Should Have, Land

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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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  Color, Years, Skins

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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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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  Funny, Time, Smart

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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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  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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• The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

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  Nuts, Presidential, Littles

  "#113 Reply All's Year End Extravaganza". Reply All Podcast, www.gimletmedia.com. December 21, 2017.

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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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  Citizens, Taxation Without Representation, Revolution

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.741, Best Books on

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• If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

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  Fighting, Next Week, San Francisco

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