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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
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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...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
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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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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
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