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Lyndon B. Johnson has 302 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
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The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult…
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The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
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It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and…
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Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say…
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage…
— Walter Lippmann
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to…
— J. William Fulbright
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
— Will Rogers
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
— Will Rogers
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