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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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
Politician
Rancher
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Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Johnson
L. B. Johnson
Freedom
Fifth
Ignorance
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All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowdnor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.
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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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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 believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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