Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 7

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• If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

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  Peace, Understanding, Together

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• This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

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  Destiny, People, Giving

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

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• Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

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  Investment, Expenses, Knows

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.466, Best Books on

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• You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

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  Men, Giving, Feel Good

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• I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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  Order, United States, Democrat

  Texas Quarterly, Winter 1958

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• No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

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  Space, Race, Quests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• 'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Clever

  Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965.

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

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  Hook, Juicy, Middle

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• In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

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  Land, Shapes, Way

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1085, Best Books on

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• The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

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  Land, Immigration, Culture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1039, Best Books on

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• John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

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  Suits, Damn, American Politics

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• A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

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  Moving, Eye, President

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• 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.

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  Integrity, Believe, Winning

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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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  Burden, Mayors, Heavy

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

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• There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

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  Perspective, Special, Gains

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

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  Lbj, Guardian, Gates

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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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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  Birthday, Men, Luxury

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• You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

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  Cowboy, Baptists, Might

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• Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

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  Education, Money, Ignorance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.27, Best Books on

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• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

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  Civilization, Water, Environmental

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

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  Children, Home, Fate

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• I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

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  Believe, Men, Feet

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.368, Best Books on

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• In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

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  Firsts, Agents, World

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.161, Best Books on

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• To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

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  Use, Hunger, Worst

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• Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

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  Aids, Alamo, Damn

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