"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for……" — Lyndon B. Johnson
"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."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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