Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson