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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 Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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L. B. Johnson
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The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.
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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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Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.
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I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
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The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.
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Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
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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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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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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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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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