“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
“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
LearningAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“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“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”
Communication“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“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Society“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”
Education“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
Education“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“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.”
Age“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
Home“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
Business“Freedom is not enough.”
Freedom“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
Failure“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
Fear“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 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“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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
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