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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 there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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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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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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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
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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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The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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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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There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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In modern warfare there are no victors there are only survivors.
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I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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