Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 3

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• Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

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  Hug, Enemy, Ems

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• If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

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  Government, Presidential, Purpose

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.286, Best Books on

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• In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

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  War, Survivor, Modern

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

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  Dust, Storm, Rabbits

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• All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

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  Texas, Iowa, People

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• The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

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  Education, Jobs, Journey

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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  Country, Book, Writing

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

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  Our Generation, Generations, Quitting

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• Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Environment

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• Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

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  Success, Leadership, Knowing

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

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  White, Buckets, Tails

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

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  Kindness, Complaining, Littles

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• Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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  Men, Wife, Church

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

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  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.

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  Religious, Mean, Heart

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• The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

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  Jobs, Government, Suing

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

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  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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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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  Ideas, President, Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.819, Best Books on

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• It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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  Party, Two, Political

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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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  Flower, Men, Battle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

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• I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

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  Powerful, Political, Politics

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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

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  Education, School, Destiny

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