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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom is not enough.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Written by Lyndon B. Johnson

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