Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 13

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• I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Trouble, Parliament

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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

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Thinking, Chinese

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• The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Classroom, Trenches, Frontiers

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• 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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  Achievement, World, Path

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1104, Best Books on

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• They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Boys, Asian

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Bars, Poverty, Offers

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hate, Way, Mastery

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

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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

  Political, President, Politics

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• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
  behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Determination, Lying, Believe

  News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

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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

  Country, Home, America

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• 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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  Future, Greatness, Yesterday

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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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  Powerful, Hands, Sky

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• 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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  Men, Society, Quality

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• A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

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  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

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• True poverty does not come from God.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Doe, Poverty, Yiddish

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• When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Boys, Lunch, Wake Up

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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

  Political, Presidential, Tasks

  State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

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• A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

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  Leadership, Education, Home

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• 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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  Unique, Humanity, May

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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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  Success, Military, Congratulations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  School, Justice, People

  Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.

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• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

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  Sex, Women, Fall

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