Lyndon Baines Johnson

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"A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children."	Faith, Government, Honesty
"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."	Age, Art, Men
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	America, Argument, Conflict
"All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it."	Miscellaneous
"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement."	America, Art, Men
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it."	Miscellaneous
"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact."	Democracy, Excellence, Government
"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."	Men, Time
"I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence."	Destiny, Excellence, Fate
"I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose."	Adversity, Change, Difficulty
"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."	Lies, Success
"I greet you as the shapers of American society."	America
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Argument, Art, Conflict
"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."	Ability, Accomplishment, Achievement
"I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day."	Politics, Time
"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women." (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)"	Desires, Government, Men
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's."	Help
"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out." (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)"	Age, Men, Time
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."	Fear, Life
"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."	America, Military, Monarchy
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