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True poverty does not come from God.
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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.
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If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.
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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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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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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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This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
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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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I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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