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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. ↗

— Jack Johnson

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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#cause #character #follow #good #good leader

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#always #appearance #especially #good #guest

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#grandfather #help #help others #how #instilled

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#appears #beyond #comment #detail #difficult

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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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. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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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. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#abroad #achieve #america #being #better

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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