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Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
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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Texas
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Johnson
L. B. Johnson
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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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I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
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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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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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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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