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" 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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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" The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. "

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" I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. "

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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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" The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. "

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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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" John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. "

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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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" They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. "

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" If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. "

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

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" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. "

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" 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. "

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" Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. "

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