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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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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
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The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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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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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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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Once we considered education a public expense we know now that it is a public investment.
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Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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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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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.
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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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