“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
Learning
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
FailureAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“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.”
Relationship“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.”
Success“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.”
Men“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
Peace“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
Best“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.”
Future“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning“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.”
War“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
Business“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
Society“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”
History“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.”
History“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
Women“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.”
Faith“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.”
Home“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”
Faith“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.”
Marriage“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
History“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.”
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