Lyndon B. Johnson quotes - page 7

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Freedom is not enough. View quote
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. View quote
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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 the good. View quote
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. View quote
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Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says, in Latin: 'God has favored our undertaking.' God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. But I cannot help believing that He truly understands and that He really favors the undertaking that we begin here tonight. View quote
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This law covers many pages. But the heart of the act is plain. Wherever, by clear and objective standards, States and counties are using regulations, or laws, or tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be struck down. If it is clear that State officials still intend to discriminate, then Federal examiners will be sent in to register all eligible voters. When the prospect of discrimination is gone, the examiners will be immediately withdrawn. And, under this act, if any county anywhere in this Nation does not want Federal intervention it need only open its polling places to all of its people. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
I have come here to thank personally each Member of the Congress who labored so long and so valiantly to make this occasion come true today, and to make this bill a reality. I cannot mention all their names, for it would take much too long, but my gratitude; and that of this Nation; belongs to the 89th Congress. We are indebted, too, to the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and to the support given to this measure by the then Attorney General and now Senator, Robert F. Kennedy. In the final days of consideration, this bill had no more able champion than the present Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach, who, with New York's own "Manny" Celler, and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Congressman Feighan of Ohio, and Senator Mansfield and Senator Dirksen constituting the leadership of the Senate, and Senator Javits, helped to guide this bill to passage, along with the help of the Members sitting in front of me today. View quote
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I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people's right to know is cherished and guarded. View quote
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We have tried over the past several years, in a variety of ways and through a number of channels, to convey to you and your colleagues our desire to achieve a peaceful settlement. For whatever reasons, these efforts have not achieved any results. . . . View quote
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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. View quote
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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. View quote
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. View quote
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. View quote
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I'm the only president you've got. View quote
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. View quote
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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. View quote
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. View quote
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