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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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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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• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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  Humorous, Patriotic, Men

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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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• 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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• Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

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  Tunnels, Light, Ends

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Political, Politics

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

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  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

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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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• 'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

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  Next Day, Wife, Bully

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Nuts, Presidential, Littles

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

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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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• Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

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  Education, Skills, New Experiences

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• 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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  Opportunity, Desire, Quality

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.262, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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  Powerful, Puppets, Strings

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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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• 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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• You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

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  Patriotic, Knowing, Problem

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