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I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.
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 fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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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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It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.
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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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'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
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I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm
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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 (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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In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
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If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.
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I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
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For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.
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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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Every President wants to do right.
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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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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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