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" I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. "

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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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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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" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "

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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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" A man without a vote is man without protection. "

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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