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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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Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
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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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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.
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The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
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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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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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Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowdnor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.
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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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