Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes and Sayings
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
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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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“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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“I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]”
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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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“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
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“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”
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“Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
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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