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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
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What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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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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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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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
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For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
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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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If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
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