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36th U S President Inspirational Quotes (205)

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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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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.
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In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
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For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
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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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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.
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Every President wants to do right.
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In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
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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.
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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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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