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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "

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" I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. "

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" Every President wants to do right. "

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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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" 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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" 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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