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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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
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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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Every President wants to do right.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
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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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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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I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.
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We still seek no wider war.
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There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
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Come now. let us reason together.
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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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The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And 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 Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
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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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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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