Lyndon B. Johnson
President
1908-08-27
Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
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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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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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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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Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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