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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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" 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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" 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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. "

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

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

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" The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. "

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" The noblest search is the search for excellence. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" 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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "

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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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" 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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" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "

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