521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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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.

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    You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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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.

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    The classroom – not the trench – is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

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    The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources – because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

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    Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

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    Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

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    For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace – for it is education that places reason over force.

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