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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. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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 have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "
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" This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. "
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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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" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "
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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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" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "
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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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" You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. "
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" The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "
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" I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. "
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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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" We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. "
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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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" 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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" If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. "
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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 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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