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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.
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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We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.
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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 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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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
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I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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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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Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
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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 purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
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