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• Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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  Thinking, Agreement, Liberty

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• Come now. let us reason together.

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  Presidential, Together, Reason

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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  Gratitude, Nature, Patriotic

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

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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

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  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

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  Lying, Space, Important

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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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  Sex, Lying, Integrity

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

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  Destiny, People, Giving

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

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• Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

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  Art, Carpe Diem, People

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on

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• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

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  War, Men, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

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• Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

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  War, Enemy, Vietnam

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• 'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Clever

  Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965.

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• There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

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  Mother, Two, Essentials

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• No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

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  Space, Race, Quests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

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  Home, Motor Vehicles, Rivers

  Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965.

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

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  Country, Space, Agency

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• In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.

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  Opportunity, Desire, Quality

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.262, Best Books on

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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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  Party, Heart, Pride

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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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  Burden, Mayors, Heavy

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

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• I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

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  Party, Presidential, Nominations

  Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

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• There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

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  Perspective, Special, Gains

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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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  Eye, Males, Female

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• To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

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  Use, Hunger, Worst

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• In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

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  Land, Shapes, Way

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1085, Best Books on

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• The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

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  Land, Immigration, Culture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1039, Best Books on

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• Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

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  Real, Ambition, Men

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