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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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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least…
— Aristotle
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
— Chinua Achebe
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That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil…
— Lester Bangs
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different,…
— Madeleine Albright
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
— David Byrne
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
— James Branch Cabell
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies…
— Albert Camus
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
— Yasser Arafat
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The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types…
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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