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Quotes By author - Starting with L - Lyndon B. Johnson
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There are 93 quotes for the author Lyndon B. Johnson
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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I don't know what it will take out there - 500 casualties maybe, maybe 500,000. It's the aughts that scare me.
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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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Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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.
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
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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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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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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
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It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
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Hell, it's just like the Alamo, and you damn well needed somebody. Well, by God, I'm going to go and thank the Lord that I've got men who want to go with me, from Secretary of Defense McNamara right on down to the littlest private who's carrying a gun.
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I greet you as the shapers of American society.
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The Air Force comes in every morning and says, "Bomb, bomb, bomb." And then the State Department comes in and says, "Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all."
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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I'm willin' for any solution-religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.
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