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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.
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Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
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Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
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The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
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