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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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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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Control of space means control of the world.
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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.
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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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
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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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You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.
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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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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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The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.
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