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" 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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Republican
Me
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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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" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. "
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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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Stand
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" The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. "
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Space
Country
" I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. "
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Destiny
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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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People
Society
" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "
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Opportunity
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" A man without a vote is man without protection. "
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Vote
Without
" 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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Feel
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" The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. "
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Most
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" 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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Way
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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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" 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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" We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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