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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
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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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.
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It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.
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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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A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
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Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
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Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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