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Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
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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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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I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
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So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
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The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
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When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
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If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
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All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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