Lyndon Baines Johnson

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"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good."	Decision-Making, Destruction, Evil
"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world."	Age, Death, Knowledge
"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 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
"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."	Acceptance, Art, Honesty
"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."	History, Intelligence, Men
"A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children."	Faith, Government, Honesty
"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
"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
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