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An Unspoiled River Is A Very Rare Thing In This Nation Today. Their Flow And Vitality Have Been Harnessed By Dams And Too Often They Have Been Turned Into Open Sewers By Communities And By Industries. It Makes Us All Very Fearful That All Rivers Will Go This Way Unless Somebody Acts Now To Try To Balance Our River Development.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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An Unspoiled River Is A Very Rare Thing In This Nation Today. Their Flow And Vitality Have Been Harnessed By Dams And Too Often They Have Been Turned Into Open Sewers By Communities And By Industries. It Makes Us All Very Fearful That All Rivers Will Go This Way Unless Somebody Acts Now To Try To Balance Our River Development.

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

John F. Kennedy Was The Victim Of The Hate That Was A Part Of Our Country. It Is A Disease That Occupies The Minds Of The Few But Brings Danger To The Many.

An Unfolding Technology Has Increased Our Economic Strength And Added To The Convenience Of Our Lives. But That Same Technology-we Know Now-carries Danger With It. From The Great Smoke Stacks Of Industry And From The Exhausts Of Motors And Machines, 130 Million Tons Of Soot, Carbon And Grime Settle Over The People And Shroud The Nation's Cities Each Year. From Towns, Factories, And Stockyards, Wastes Pollute Our Rivers And Streams, Endangering The Waters We Drink And Use.

We Americans Know - Although Others Appear To Forget - The Risk Of Spreading Conflict. We Still Seek No Wider War.

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.

The Purposeful Many Need Not And Will Not Bow To The Willful Few.

We Come To Reason, Not To Dominate. We Do Not Seek To Have Our Way, But To Find A Common Way.

A Few Years Make Such Havoc In Human Generations That We Soon See Ourselves Deprived Of Those With Whom We Entered The World, And Whom The Participation Of Pleasures Or Fatigues Had Endeared To Our Remembrance.

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.

In The Years Since Then, Those Four Freedoms - Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Worship, Freedom From Want, And Freedom From Fear - Have Stood As A Summary Of Our Aspirations For The American Republic And For The World.

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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.'

Many Have No Happier Moments Than Those That They Pass In Solitude, Abandoned To Their Own Imagination, Which Sometimes Puts Sceptres In Their Hands Or Miters On Their Heads, Shifts The Scene Of Pleasure With Endless Variety, Bids All The Forms Of Beauty Sparkle Before Them, And Gluts Them With Every Change Of Visionary Luxury.

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 Know That They Cannot Bear Their Share Of The Taxes To Help Pay For Their Education. And Unless Those Children Get A Good Education We Know That They Become Dropouts And They Become Delinquents And They Become Taxeaters Instead Of Taxpayers. We Know That They Will Join The Unemployed. That Is Why We Put Top Priority On Breaking The Vicious Cycle That Today Threatens The Future Of 5 Million Children In This Great Land Of Opportunity Which We Talk About So Much.

Until Justice Is Blind To Color, Until Education Is Unaware Of Race, Until Opportunity Is Unconcerned With The Color Of Men's Skins, Emancipation Will Be A Proclamation But Not A Fact.

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.

There Can No Longer Be Anyone Too Poor To Vote.

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

I Am Persuaded That The People Of The World Have No Grievances, One Against The Other. The Hopes And Desires Of A Man Who Tills The Soil Are About The Same Whether He Lives On The Banks Of The Colorado Or On The Banks Of The Danube.

Every Man Of Any Education Would Rather Be Called A Rascal, Than Accused Of Deficiency In The Graces.

I'll Have Those N**gers Voting Democratic For The Next 200 Years.

For The Individual, Education Is The Path To Achievement And Fulfillment; For The Nation, It Is A Path To A Society That Is Not Only Free But Civilized; And For The World, It Is The Path To Peace - For It Is Education That Places Reason Over Force.

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