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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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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
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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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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
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Come now. let us reason together.
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It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
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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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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
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