Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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