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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
36Th U.S. President
Politician
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Texas
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Friends
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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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 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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The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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