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" 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
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God
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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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" 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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" 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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" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "
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" We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. "
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" 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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" Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. "
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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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" 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 last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "
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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. "
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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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" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "
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" 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. "
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" There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. "
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" There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. "
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" There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. "
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" 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. "
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" To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. "
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" Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. "
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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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" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "
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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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" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "
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" 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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" It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. "
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" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. "
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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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" No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. "
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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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