119 ordspråk av Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
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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.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
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All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in
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But the gift of Providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbours on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.
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Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
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Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
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For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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Freedom is not enough.
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Friendly cynics and fierce enemies alike often underestimate or ignore the strong thread of moral purpose which runs through the fabric of American history
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