Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson