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I'm the only president you've got.

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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.
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We still seek no wider war.
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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
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Once we considered education a public expense we know now that it is a public investment.
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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
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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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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
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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 fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith freedom asks more than it gives and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
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Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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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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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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