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Quotes by Lyndon B Johnson
- The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
- The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
- 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.
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
- This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
- 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.
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