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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Real

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.773, Best Books on

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• Liberty is not enough.

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  Liberty, Enough

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• I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

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  Order, Long, Age

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• Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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  Fighting, Uprising, President

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• I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Golf, Handicaps

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• All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

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  Phones, Needs, Answers

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• For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

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  Education, School, College

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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  Voting, Democracy, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Cutting, Men

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

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  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

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  Numbers, Vietnam, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

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  Agreement, United States, Way

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.172, Best Books on

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• The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Fifth

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

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  History, Giving, Democracy

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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  War, Unconditional Love, Poverty

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• What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

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  Party, People, President

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

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  Heart, Giving, Age

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• For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged
  character of our people, and on their faith.

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  Character, Destiny, People

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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  Men, Church, Doe

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• I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

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  Law, Use, Injustice

  Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.

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• The family is the corner stone of our society.

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  Family, Stones, Our Society

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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  Men, Demand, Matter

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.593, Best Books on

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• The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

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  Morning, Military, Air

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• Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

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  Years, Cities, Air

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