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In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.
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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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