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Lyndon B. Johnson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

age

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

best

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

business

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

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communication

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

education

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

education

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

education

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

failure

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

faith

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

faith

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

family

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

fear

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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fear

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

freedom

Freedom is not enough.

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freedom

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

freedom

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

future

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

god

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

government

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

-Lyndon B. Johnson

history

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

history

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

history

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

history

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

home

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

home

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

home

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

learning

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

learning

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

marriage

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

men

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

-Lyndon B. Johnson

morning

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

peace

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

politics

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

politics

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

politics

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Freedom is not enough.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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.

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.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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.

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