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• Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

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  Motivational, Expression, Suffering

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• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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  Bars, Poverty, Offers

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

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  College, Years, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.124, Best Books on

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• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

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  Grief, Hands, Long

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• In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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  Prayer, Home, Unapologetic

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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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  Country, Home, America

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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  Powerful, Hands, Sky

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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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  Exercise, Power, Agony

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.496, Best Books on

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

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  Beauty, Children, Men

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

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  Children, Knowledge, Mind

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

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  Finals, Poverty, Conquest

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• I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

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  Religious, Political, Weakness

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• It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

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  Education, Money, Luxury

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1103, Best Books on

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• There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

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  Voting, Vote, Poor

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• I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

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  Running, Trouble, Parliament

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• Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

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  Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

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• Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

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  Miracle, Today, Problem

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• How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

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  Hate, Way, Mastery

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• True poverty does not come from God.

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  Doe, Poverty, Yiddish

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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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  Success, Military, Congratulations

  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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• Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

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  Usa, United States Of America, Nations

  Special Message to the Congress on Immigration, January 13, 1965.

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

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  Loss, Long, Age

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• When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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  Boys, Lunch, Wake Up

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• Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

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  Law, Desire, Machinery

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1001, Best Books on

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• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

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  Poverty, Firsts, Conquer

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

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