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It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.
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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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 Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
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We must open the doors of opportunity.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
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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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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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In modern warfare there are no victors there are only survivors.
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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
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I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
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Every President wants to do right.
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Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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