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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. "

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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. "

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" You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Every President wants to do right. "

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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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