Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

• 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

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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.

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  Tags in Aggression, Vietnam War, Conquest, Military

• If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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  Tags in Gratitude, Generations, Sorrow, Miracles

• 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.

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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, the the other, to let her have it.

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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  Tags in Learned, Wife, Marriage

• Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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• Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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  Tags in Attend, Episcopal, Wife, Man, Church

• We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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• Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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• 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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  Tags in Necessity, Luxury

• The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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  Tags in Freedom, Ignorance

• If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

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• You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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• While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

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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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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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  Tags in Injustice, Civil Rights, Voting

• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Duty, Virtue

• It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Unique

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

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Lyndon B. Johnson (106)

Birth:	27th August, 1908
Death:	22nd January, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

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