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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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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" Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. "
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" Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. "
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" 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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" I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. "
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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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" I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. "
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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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" Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. "
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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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" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "
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" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "
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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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" The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. "
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" Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. "
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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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" The noblest search is the search for excellence. "
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" The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. "
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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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" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "
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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 the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. "
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