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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.
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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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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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The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.
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Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
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If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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