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" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Want
Favor
I Am
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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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Right
Feel
Liberty
" The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
History
Feared
Fear
" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
God
Men
People
" 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
Society
Men
" When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mayor
Myself
Worse
" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Had
Know
Poverty
" Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Damn
Going
God
" Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Learning
Bar
Escape
" Every President wants to do right. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Wants
Every
Right
" 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
Accept
Party
Lost
" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Right
Man
Bath
" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Live
World
Neighborhood
" What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Win
Argument
Believe
" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Light
Cause
You
" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hardest
Know
President
" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Man
You
Drunk
" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bombs
Failure
Guns
" 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
American
Home
Send
" 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
Strength
Home
Better
" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Will
War
" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Moment
Wish
Parents
" 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
Justice
Men
" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Problem
Opportunity
Education
" I'm the only president you've got. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Got
Only
President
" I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Will
Help
I Can
" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Now
Enough
Equality
" 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
I Am
Open
Museum
" The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Character
Newspaper
Man
" I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe
Fight
Vietnam
" 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
Relationship
Congress
Way