Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 8

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• The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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  War, History, Political

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• You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

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  Friendship, Dog, Sleep

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• 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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  Latin, Pyramids, America

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

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  Education, Children, America

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

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• The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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  President, Lasts, Wartime

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• We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

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  Education, Opportunity, Doors

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

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  Learning, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential

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• 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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  Presidential, Four, Pillars

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1077, Best Books on

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• It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

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  Uplifting, Believe, Hero

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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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  Mean, Men, People

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• 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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  Fall, Patriotic, Always Trying

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• 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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  Education, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.171, Best Books on

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• Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

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  Investment, Expenses, Knows

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.466, Best Books on

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

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  Fall, Heart, Men

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• 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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  Wish, Doe, Stones

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.562, Best Books on

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• Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

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  Education, Skills, New Experiences

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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• The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

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  Men, White Man, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.336, Best Books on

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• So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

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  Passion, Thinking, Expectations

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• He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

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  Vision, Way, Worried

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• A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

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  Men, Drunk, Sick

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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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  Powerful, Puppets, Strings

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

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  Country, Women, Opportunity

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• I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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  Hook, Juicy, Middle

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• If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

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  People, Descendants, Ifs

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• 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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  Men, Population Problem, Decision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

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