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Danh ngôn của Lyndon B. Johnson (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Freedom is not enough.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
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.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.