This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses. - Lyndon B. Johnson
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B. Johnson
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face… - Lyndon B. Johnson
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face…
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you … - Lyndon B. Johnson
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you …
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. - Lyndon B. Johnson
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation wil… - Lyndon B. Johnson
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation wil…
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