Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Funny, Time, Smart

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Book, Writing

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Survivor, Modern

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  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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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, Iowa, People

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Eye, Men, Hands

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Kindness, Complaining, Littles

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  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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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

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  Lying, Space, Important

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• He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Football, Nice, Guy

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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.

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  Writing, May, Want

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• What convinces is conviction.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Conviction, Convince

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• We must change to master change.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Change, Masters

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, Challenges, Society

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

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• All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Presidential, Today, Given

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

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  Education, Country, Peace

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Wife, Church

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  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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• We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Firsts

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.291, 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Brotherhood, World, Neighborhood

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• To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Eye, Males, Female

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