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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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Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of 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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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
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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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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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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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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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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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