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Letter "L" » Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
«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.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
aggression, escalation, increased, in Vietnam, mindless, Vietnam
«The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Power
| Keywords:
agony, arrogance, in the United States, this century
«Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.»
«Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
«It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
common mistake, Common Speech, disloyalty, dissent, misjudge, public policy, regimes
«I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
hoped-for, hoped, Kennedy, President Kennedy, President Roosevelt, President Truman, Roosevelt, Truman
«If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
bully, bullying, front porch, front yard, porch, rape, the next day, yard
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Conflict
| Keywords:
civil rights, Klansman, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, sheet
«A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
compassionate, Faith in the Future, Future of
«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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