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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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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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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If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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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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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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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
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If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
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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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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.
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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
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The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
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