American - President | August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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.
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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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