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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith freedom asks more than it gives and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
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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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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
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We still seek no wider war.
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If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.
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He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.
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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.
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I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
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If you're not listening, you're not learning.
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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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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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In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
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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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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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In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
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