Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Profession : President

Birth : August 27, 1908

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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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

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

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.

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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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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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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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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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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.

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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

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