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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

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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If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith freedom asks more than it gives and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
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In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.
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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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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
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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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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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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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'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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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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It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
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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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