Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Lyndon B. Johnson (97)

Birth:	27th August, 1908
Death:	22nd January, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

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• Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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  A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.

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• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

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  Topics in Education, Justice, Opportunity

  Tags in Proclamation, Race, Color

• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

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  Topics in Politics, Progress, Self Respect

  Tags in Community, City

• 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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• 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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  Tags in Presidency, Mayor, Political Punch, Burden

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

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• The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

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• The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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

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  Tags in Rendezvous, Excellence, Famous, Destiny

• There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

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  Tags in Cheaply, Responsibility, Useless, Deny

• 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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  Tags in Drunk, Mouth, Men And Women

• 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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  Tags in Aggression, Vietnam War, Conquest, Military

• 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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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Gratitude, Generations, Sorrow, Miracles

• 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.

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  Tags in Congress, Continuously, Incessantly, Hate, Relationship, Look

• Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the the other, to let her have it.

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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  Tags in Learned, Wife, Marriage

• Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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• Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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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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