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Lyndon B Johnson Inspirational Quotes (205)

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He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
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In modern warfare there are no victors there are only survivors.
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If you're not listening, you're not learning.
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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We still seek no wider war.
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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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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I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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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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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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If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith freedom asks more than it gives and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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