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" If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Everything
You
Doing
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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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" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "
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" Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. "
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" I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. "
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" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "
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" A man without a vote is man without protection. "
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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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" 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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" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "
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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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" When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. "
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Him
Appreciate
" There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. "
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Problems
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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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Will
War
" 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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Work
Vote
" 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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Stand
Politics
" 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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Job
Always
" I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. "
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Like
Right
Feel
" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "
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Had
Know
Poverty
" I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. "
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Will
Help
I Can
" 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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Damn
Going
God
" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. "
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Tomorrow
Win
Win Or Lose
" 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
" 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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Think
Way
Wife
" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "
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Right
Man
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" 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. "
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Congress
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" 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. "
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Argument
Believe
" 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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You
Drunk
" 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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Light
Cause
You
" It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. "
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Me
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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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