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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
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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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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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.
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Come now. let us reason together.
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
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It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.
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I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
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The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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