Lyndon B. Johnson Short Quotes

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It is our will and not our strength that is being tried.

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Never tell a man to go to hell unless you can send him there.

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

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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

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I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from a chicken salad.
On a speech by Richard Nixon

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All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

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For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty.

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

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A people divided over the right to vote can never build a Nation united.

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

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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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

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Eisenhower used to tell me that this place was a prison. I never felt freer.

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A president's hardest task is not do what is right but to know what is right.

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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 office of the presidency is the only office in this land of all the people.

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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

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Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

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

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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

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