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'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
36Th U.S. President
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When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.
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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.
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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.
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Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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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.
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The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
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Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.
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It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
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