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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.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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Congratulations

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Success Only Feeds The Appetite Of Aggression.

All I Have I Would Have Given Gladly Not To Be Standing Here Today.

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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There Is Nothing That Exasperates People More Than A Display Of Superior Ability Or Brilliance In Conversation. They Seem Pleased At The Time, But Their Envy Makes Them Curse The Conversationalist In Their Heart.

There Is But One Way For A President To Deal With Congress, And That Is Continuously, Incessantly, And Without Interruption. If It Is Really Going To Work, The Relationship Has Got To Be Almost Incestuous.

Come Now. Let Us Reason Together.

I Am A Compromiser And Maneuverer. I Try To Get Something. That's The Way Our System Works.

You Ain't Learnin' Nothin' When You're Talkin'.

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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.

Four. That's What I Want You To Remember. If You Don't Get Your Idea Across In The First Four Minutes, You Won't Do It. Four Sentences To A Paragraph. Four Letters To A Word. The Most Important Words In The English Language All Have Four Letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .i Know Peace Has Five Letters, But Any Damn Fool Knows It Should Have Four.

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.

The Men Who Have Guided The Destiny Of The United States Have Found The Strength For Their Tasks By Going To Their Knees. This Private Unity Of Public Men And Their God Is An Enduring Source Of Reassurance For The People Of America.

We Cannot Have Government For All The People Until We First Make Certain It Is Government Of And By All The People.

I Dont Believe In Labels. I Want To Do The Best I Can, All The Time. I Want To Be Progressive Without Getting Both Feet Off The Ground At The Same Time. I Want To Be Prudent Without Having My Mind Closed To Anything That Is New Or Different. I Have Often Said That I Was Proud That I Was A Free Man First And An American Second, And A Public Servant Third And A Democrat Fourth, In That Order, And I Guess As A Democrat, If I Had To Takeplace A Label On Myself, I Would Want To Be A Progressive Who Is Prudent.

We Can And Should Have An Abundance Of Trails For Walking, Cycling, And Horseback Riding, In And Close To Our Cities. In The Backcountry We Need To Copy The Great Appalachian Trail In All Parts Of America.

I Seldom Think Of Politics More Than Eighteen Hours A Day.

America Has Not Always Been Kind To Its Artists And Scholars. Somehow The Scientists Always Seem To Get The Penthouse While The Arts And Humanities Get The Basement.

Knowledge Is Of Two Kinds: We Know A Subject Itself, Or Know Where To Find It.

Sometimes Among Our More Sophisticated, Self-styled Intellectuals--and I Say Self-styled Advisedly; The Real Intellectual I Am Notsure Would Ever Feel This Way--some Of Them Are More Concerned With Appearance Than They Are With Achievement. They Are More Concerned With Style Then They Are With Mortar, Brick And Concrete. They Are More Concerned With Trivia And The Superficial Than They Are With The Things That Have Really Built America.

Never Make A Speech At A Country Dance Or A Football Game.

We Of The United States Of America Consider Ourselves Blessed. We Have Much To Give Thanks For. But The Gift Of Providence That We Really Cherish Is That We Were Given As Our Neighbors On This Great, Wonderful Continent, The People And The Nation Of Canada.

While You're Saving Your Face, You're Losing Your Ass.

It Means An Educational System Which Does Not Simply Equip The Students To Adjust To Society, But Which Enables The Student To Challenge And To Modify, And At Times Reject, If Necessary, The Received Wisdom Of His Elders.

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.

...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.

We Will Not Have Served The Water Needs Of Americans If We Meet Only The Requirements Of Today's Population. A Prudent Nation Must Look Ahead And Plan For Tomorrow.

The Final Conquest Of Poverty Is Within Our Grasp.

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.

Liberty Is Not Enough.

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.

This Nation, This Generation, In This Hour Has Man's First Chance To Build A Great Society, A Place Where The Meaning Of Man's Life Matches The Marvels Of Man's Labor.

The Thing I Would Like To Do Most Is To Find Somehow To Bring Peace To The World. It Has Eluded Me.

I Want Every Family In America To Have A Carpet On The Floor And A Picture On The Wall. After Bread, You've Got To Have A Picture On The Wall.

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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