Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.
Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
1. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
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2. “Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that’s the challenge.”
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3. “If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.”
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4. “Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.”
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5. “There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.”
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6. “Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.”
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7. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
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8. “Come now. let us reason together.”
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9. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
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10. “Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.”
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11. “The noblest search is the search for excellence.”
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12. “You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.”
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13. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
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14. “I’m gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm.”
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15. “If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.”
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16. “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”
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17. “Control of space means control of the world.”
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18. “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
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19. “We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”
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20. “At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.””
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21. “If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco.”
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22. “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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23. “Voting is the first duty of democracy.”
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24. “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.”
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25. “Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.”
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26. “I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.”
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27. “A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”
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28. “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’”
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29. “Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.”
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30. “The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.”
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31. “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.”
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32. “This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.”
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33. “Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.”
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34. “In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.”
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35. “If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.”
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36. “The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.”
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37. “I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.”
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38. “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources – because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
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39. “The classroom – not the trench – is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.”
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40. “We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
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41. “For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.”
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42. “All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.”
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43. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.”
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44. “Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.”
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45. “At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.”
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46. “We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
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47. “I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.”
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48. “Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.”
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49. “To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.”
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50. “Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.”
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51. “The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
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52. “Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.”
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53. “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.”
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54. “There’s something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.”
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55. “The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.”
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56. “Power is where power goes.”
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57. “If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.”
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58. “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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59. “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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60. “Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”
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61. “The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.”
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62. “Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: “God has favored our undertaking.” God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.”
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63. “A man without a vote is man without protection.”
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64. “The family is the corner stone of our society.”
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65. “In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.”
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66. “There’s America, there’s the South, and then there’s Mississippi.”
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67. “Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.”
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68. “It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.”
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69. “Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.”
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70. “In the years since then, those four freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear – have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.”
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71. “No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”
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72. “The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.”
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73. “Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake – but for the nation’s sake.”
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74. “I’m the only president you’ve got.”
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75. “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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76. “We must change to master change.”
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77. “For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.”
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78. “The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.”
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79. “What convinces is conviction.”
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80. “A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky – these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.”
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81. “Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.”
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82. “Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.”
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83. “I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
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84. “America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”
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85. “I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That’s the way our system works.”
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86. “Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.”
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87. “New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.”
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88. “War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.”
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89. “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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90. “Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.”
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91. “I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
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92. “Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.”
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93. “Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”
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94. “Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.”
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95. “As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too-a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people-so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”
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96. “I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.”
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97. “I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.”
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98. “Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.”
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99. “Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I’m going to Vietnam.”
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100. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”
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101. “The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
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102. “The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”
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103. “While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.”
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104. “A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.”
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105. “No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.”
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106. “President Can’t Swim.”
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107. “The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.”
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108. “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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109. “The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.”
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110. “One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.”
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111. “We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.”
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112. “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.”
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113. “This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.”
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114. “We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.”
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115. “To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.”
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116. “If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
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117. “Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.”
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118. “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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119. “If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.”
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120. “We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.”
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121. “Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.”
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122. “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.”
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123. “Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.”
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124. “He’s a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.”
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125. “Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.”
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126. “Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.”
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127. “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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128. “This nation, this generation, in this hour has man’s first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man’s life matches the marvels of man’s labor.”
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129. “Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
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130. “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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131. “If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.”
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132. “There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.”
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133. “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.”
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134. “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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135. “We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.”
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136. “When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.”
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137. “Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.”
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138. “Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.”
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139. “The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.”
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140. “I know – from personal experience – that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.”
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141. “Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.”
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142. “The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.”
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143. “Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.”
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144. “Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.”
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145. “Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.”
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146. “The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.”
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147. “If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”
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148. “Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.”
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149. “For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace – for it is education that places reason over force.”
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150. “This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
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151. “I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office – and by personal conviction – I am sworn to uphold that tradition.”
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152. “Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.”
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153. “When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.”
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154. “Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins.”
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155. “The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.”
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156. “We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.”
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157. “I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don’t believe they are talking about the same situation.”
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158. “We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”
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159. “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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160. “You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.”
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161. “It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.”
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162. “Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.”
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163. “The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.”
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164. “It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.”
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165. “You never want to give a man a present when he’s feeling good. You want to do it when he’s down.”
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166. “If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.”
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167. “They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.”
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168. “In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.”
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169. “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”
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170. “All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.”
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171. “If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
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172. “Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.”
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173. “Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.”
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174. “I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.”
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175. “For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.”
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176. “You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”
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177. “Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.”
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178. “When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.”
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179. “So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.”
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180. “Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.”
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181. “Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.”
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182. “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.”
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183. “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.”
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184. “Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!”
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185. “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.”
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186. “The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.”
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187. “Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
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188. “You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.”
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189. “If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.”
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190. “In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.”
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191. “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.”
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192. “True poverty does not come from God.”
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193. “Every President wants to do right.”
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194. “Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”
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195. “The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.”
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196. “For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.”
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197. “There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.”
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198. “As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”
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199. “We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today’s population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.”
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200. “It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.”
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