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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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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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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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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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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.
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When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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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 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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...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
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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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All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowdnor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.
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