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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.
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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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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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.
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'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
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For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
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Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
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If you're not listening, you're not learning.
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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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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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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
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Once we considered education a public expense we know now that it is a public investment.
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Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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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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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
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