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I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.


Lyndon Johnson

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“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the m...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Better to have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klans...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON What convinces is conviction
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occu...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'd much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out, than outside my tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"

In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGau...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one sing...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonigh...
LYNDON FERNS The rationale seems to be that we keep people as victims by validating them, empathizing with them, ...
KYRIAN LYNDON That is a phenomenal return on your investment dollars, and I expect 2006 to be another strong year ...
LYNDON HOLDEMAN Believe it or not, Boise is poised to be the No. 1 market for appreciation in 2006, and that has man...
LYNDON HOLDEMAN