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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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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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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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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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
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The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
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It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
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Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.
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