Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

American - President | August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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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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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.

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