Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson
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This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson