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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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Once we considered education a public expense we know now that it is a public investment.
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There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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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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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 fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
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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.
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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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