Lyndon Baines Johnson

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"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."	Age, Lies, Sin
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."	Men, Monarchy
"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy." (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"	Democracy, Failure, Government
"The noblest search is the search for excellence."	Excellence, Greatness
"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
"Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is."	Darkness, Knowledge, Light
"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today."	America, Friends, Men
"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's."	Help
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."	Fear, Life
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."	Books, Equality, Law
"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."	Military, War
"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
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."	Excellence, Military, Opportunity
"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"	America, Conflict, Knowledge
"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."	America
"When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner"	Sleeping
"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
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."	Miscellaneous
"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
"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint."	Age, Duty, Military
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