Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 4

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• Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Writing, May, Want

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Eye, Law

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• Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

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  Republican, Economy, Know How

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• A man without a vote is man without protection.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Patriotic, Men, Vote

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Struggle, Rights, Issues

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Way, Apollo

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• This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.593, Best Books on

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• We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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  Brotherhood, World, Neighborhood

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• We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Believe

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Entrepreneur, Bed

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• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Adventure, Men, Rare Events

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fate, Men, Shapes

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Men, Rivers

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

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• It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Done

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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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  Motivational, Success, Business

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• Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Football, Country, Games

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• Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
  only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Wish

  Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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• When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Children, Community

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.639, Best Books on

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• If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

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  Peace, Understanding, Together

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• ...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

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  Country, Responsibility, Presidential

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• Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

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  Two, Kind, Subjects

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• The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

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  Prayer, Destiny, Men

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• What convinces is conviction.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Conviction, Convince

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Self, America

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