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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
36Th U.S. President
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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