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There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
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We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm
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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
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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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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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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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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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Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
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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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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
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It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
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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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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.
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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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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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