The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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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