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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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"At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom."

"There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights."

"I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle."

"We know that most people's intentions are good. We don't question their motives, we've never said they're unpatriotic. Although they say some pretty ugly things about us. And we believe very strongly on preserving the right to differ in this country, and the right to dissent, and if I have done a good job of anything since I've been president, it's to insure that there are plenty of dissenters."

"Education is equipping our children to walk through doors of opportunity."

"I never trust a man till I have his pecker in my pocket."

"If you have had your foot on the neck of a man for three hundred years, and then take it off, do you expect him to get up and thank you?"

"We learned from Hitler at Munich that success only feeds the appetite for aggression."

"You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right."

"Jerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off."

"You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

 

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