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I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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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We must open the doors of opportunity.
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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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Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.
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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
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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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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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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
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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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I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
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