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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
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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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