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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
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Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
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