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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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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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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 Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
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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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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Come now. let us reason together.
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
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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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He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.
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Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
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Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
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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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The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
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