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We still seek no wider war.
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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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
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Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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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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Come now. let us reason together.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.
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If you're not listening, you're not learning.
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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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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
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We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.
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The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
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