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| I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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 |
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| Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| The noblest search is the search for excellence. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam) |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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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| 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 |
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| A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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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| 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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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 good. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining... |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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| The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. |
Jean Paul |
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| Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Our pleasures were simple-they included survival. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| There is no victory at bargain basement prices. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54) |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. |
Dwight D Eisenhower |
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| All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men. |
Hilaire Belloc |
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| The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. |
Hilaire Belloc |
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| When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. |
Hilaire Belloc |
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| I'm tired of Love I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. |
Hilaire Belloc |
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| From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. |
Hilaire Belloc |
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| Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. |
William Proxmire |
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| Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. |
James Allen |
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| You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. |
James Allen |
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| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. |
James Allen |
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