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I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
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As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.
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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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The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.
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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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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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The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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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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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
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