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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. View quote
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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. View quote
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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. View quote
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. View quote
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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. View quote
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. View quote
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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. View quote
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The noblest search is the search for excellence. View quote
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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. View quote
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. View quote
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. View quote
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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. View quote
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. View quote
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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. View quote
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. View quote
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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. View quote
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. View quote
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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. View quote
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. View quote
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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. View quote
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