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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
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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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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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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
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'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
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I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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True poverty does not come from God.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
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In modern warfare there are no victors there are only survivors.
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He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.
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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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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And 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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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