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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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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" I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. "

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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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" The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. "

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

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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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" 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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" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. "

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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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" 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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" It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. "

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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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