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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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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Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
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In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
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