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Lyndon B. Johnson
American
President
Born:
Aug 27
,
1908
Man
Me
People
Think
Will
You
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Responsibility
Trouble
Down
Plenty
Out
Recommendations
Cheaply
Come
Most
How
Deny
Get
Them
Your
Fast
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Education
Problem
Opportunity
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
God
Strength
People
Men
Unity
Guided
States
Destiny
Knees
For The People
Private
Source
America
Tasks
Going
Enduring
Public
Who
Reassurance
Found
United
United States
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Me
Important
Party
Too
States
System
Small
Remain
Parties
Fellow
Likes
Republican
Republican Party
Who
United
United States
Two-Party
Suit
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Life
Love
Faith
Freedom
Spiritual
Society
Our
Way
Insights
Prophets
Democratic
Israel
America
Human
Common
Hebrew
Human Freedom
Illuminated
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
War
Poverty
This Administration
Administration
Unconditional
Now
Here
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Good
You
Logical
Win
Matter
Brilliant
Will
Argument
Sense
Conviction
Believe
Other
Case
Something
Advancing
Dead
How
Person
Your
Reasoning
Chain
Elegant
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Home
Prayer
Our
Aloud
Always
Proud
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Work
Relationship
Congress
President
Way
One-Way
Almost
Without
Deal
Got
Continuously
Going
Really
Incessantly
Interruption
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Man
Better
Will
Gone
Secretary
Out
Attention
Well
Call
Him
Chew
Staff
Things
Appreciate
Sleep
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
War
Tired
People
Feeling
Worrying
About
Up
Waking
Waking Up
American
Middle
American People
Rejected
Night
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sky
Nation
Weapons
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Only
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Effective
Hands
Controls
Which
Certainly
Bomb
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Love
Man
Wife
Church
Hath
Attend
Greater
His
Than
Episcopal
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Me
History
Fear
Feared
Russians
Every President wants to do right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Every
President
Wants
Right
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Learning
Poverty
Must
Escape
Offer
Bar
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Generation
Nation
Believe
Destiny
Excellence
Rendezvous
Your
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great
Opportunity
Rich
Society
Only
Great Society
Toward
Powerful
Move
Upward
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Wake Up
Dinner
Lunch
Boy
Wake
Up
Vietnam
Congo
Cyprus
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Man
Matter
Made
Big
Every
Enough
Presidency
Small
He
Demands
Occupied
How
Big Enough
Than
Bigger
Who
Every Man
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Space
Moon
Free
Country
Other
Claim
No Country
Advance
Countries
Permitted
Celestial
Sovereignty
Bodies
Should
Exploration
Use
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
Will
Increased
Others
Our
Mindless
Because
Escalation
Vietnam
Aggression
Numbers
Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom
Enough
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
President
Wanted
Wartime
Thing
Last
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics
Day
Think
More
Seldom
Hours
Than
Eighteen
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
You
Man
Pour
Drunk
Mouth
Sick
Take
Open
He
Bourbon
Without
Quart
His
Get
Getting
Going
Getting Drunk
Hold
Little
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