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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 Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.
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Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
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Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
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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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