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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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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
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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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There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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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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Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
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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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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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I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
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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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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Every President wants to do right.
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