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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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" 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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Man

You

Drunk

" This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. "

" If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. "

" 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. "

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

" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

" 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. "

" The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. "

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

" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

" 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. "

" 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

Important

" Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Right

Feel

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

" The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

" I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. "

" 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. "

" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Party

Lost

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

" When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. "

" When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lunch

Boy

" The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "

" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "