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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anything #because #believe #credit #ever

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#atomic bomb #bomb #certainly #conclusively #controls

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#big enough #bigger #demands #enough #every

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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