A man without a vote is man without protection.
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
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Freedom is not enough.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
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I'm the only president you've got.
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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
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.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
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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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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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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.
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Quote
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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