Time quotes by Lyndon Baines Johnson

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"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out." (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)"
"If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed." (On appeasement)"
"I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day."
"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today."
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."
"I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose."