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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.

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  Understanding, Behinds, Stills

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

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  Football, Nice, Dumb

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• Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

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  Men, Entrepreneur, Bed

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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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  Family, Children, Community

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.639, Best Books on

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• No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

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  Our Generation, Generations, Quitting

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• Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

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  Education, Skills, New Experiences

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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  Party, Two, Political

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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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• Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

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  Republican, Economy, Know How

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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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  Powerful, Puppets, Strings

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• Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

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  Conservative, Republican, Democrat

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• Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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  Hype, History, Political

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

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  White, Buckets, Tails

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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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• There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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  Relationship, Unity, Together

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• Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

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  Past, Evil, Presidential

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.876, Best Books on

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• ...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

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  Country, Responsibility, Presidential

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• Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

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  Inspirational Life, Justice, Liberty

  "271 - Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

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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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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

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  Funny, Time, Smart

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• I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

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  Flower, Men, Battle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, 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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