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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Money

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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

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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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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.

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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Education

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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

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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.

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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.

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More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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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.

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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

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

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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.

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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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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.

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We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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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.

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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

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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

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

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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.

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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.

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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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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.

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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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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.

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

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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.

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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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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.

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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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

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Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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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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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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