Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Saving, Faces, Losing

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Boys, Made, Princeton

  Cited in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Funny, Hilarious, Wisdom

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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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

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  Understanding, Behinds, Stills

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

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Favors, Want, Policy

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Tails

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

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  Republican, Economy, Know How

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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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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Football, Nice, Dumb

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Motor Vehicles, Rivers

  Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, February 8, 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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• 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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• In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

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  War, Survivor, Modern

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• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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  Inspirational, Light, Government

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Responsibility, Presidential

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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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• 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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• 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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