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I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

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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For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
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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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A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.
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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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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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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
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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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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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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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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
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