Lyndon B. Johnson
Quotations
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“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
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“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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“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
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“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“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
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“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.” -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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.” -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.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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