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I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.
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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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There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
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If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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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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All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.
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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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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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