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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
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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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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
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If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith freedom asks more than it gives and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
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Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.
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