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As It Was 189 Years Ago, So Today The Cause Of America Is A Revolutionary Cause. And I Am Proud This Morning To Salute You As Fellow Revolutionaries. Neither You Nor I Are Willing To Accept The Tyranny Of Poverty, Nor The Dictatorship Of Ignorance, Nor The Despotism Of Ill Health, Nor The Oppression Of Bias And Prejudice And Bigotry. We Want Change. We Want Progress. We Want It Both Abroad And At Homeand We Aim To Get It.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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As It Was 189

Lyndon B. Johnson

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As It Was 189 Years Ago, So Today The Cause Of America Is A Revolutionary Cause. And I Am Proud This Morning To Salute You As Fellow Revolutionaries. Neither You Nor I Are Willing To Accept The Tyranny Of Poverty, Nor The Dictatorship Of Ignorance, Nor The Despotism Of Ill Health, Nor The Oppression Of Bias And Prejudice And Bigotry. We Want Change. We Want Progress. We Want It Both Abroad And At Homeand We Aim To Get It.

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

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Boys, It Is Just Like The Alamo. Somebody Should Have By God Helped Those Texans. I'm Going To Vietnam.

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. . . The Time Has Also Come To Identify And Preserve Free-flowing Stretches Of Our Great Rivers Before Growth And Development Make The Beauty Of The Unspoiled Waterway A Memory.

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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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I Want To Make A Policy Statement. I Am Unabashedly In Favor Of Women.

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We Have Talked Long Enough In This Country About Equal Rights. It Is Time Now To Write The Next Chapter - And To Write It In The Books Of Law.

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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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You Have Your Own Difficulties. We Watch, With Friendly Confidence In Your Capacity To Merge Differences In The Grand Dream Of Canadian Design.

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Our Numbers Have Increased In Vietnam Because The Aggression Of Others Has Increased In Vietnam. There Is Not, And There Will Not Be, A Mindless Escalation.

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I Believe We Can Continue The Great Society While We Fight In Vietnam.

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.

In Asia We Face An Ambitious And Aggressive China, But We Have The Will And We Have The Strength To Help Our Asian Friends Resist That Ambition. Sometimes Our Folks Get A Little Impatient. Sometimes They Rattle Their Rockets Some, And They Bluff About Their Bombs. But We Are Not About To Send American Boys 9 Or 10,000 Miles Away From Home To Do What Asian Boys Ought To Be Doing For Themselves.

Better To Have Him Inside The Tent Pissing Out, Than Outside The Tent Pissing In.

Nothing Comes Free. Nothing. Not Even Good, Especially Not Good.

The Noblest Search Is The Search For Excellence.

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True Poverty Does Not Come From God.

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Just Like The Alamo, Somebody Damn Well Needed To Go To Their Aid. Well, By God, I'm Going To Viet Nam's Aid!

In Modern Warfare There Are No Victors; There Are Only Survivors.

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Education Is 'the Guardian Genius Of Our Democracy.' Nothing Really Means More To Our Future, Not Our Military Defenses, Not Our Missiles Or Our Bombers, Not Our Production Economy, Not Even Our Democratic System Of Government. For All Of These Are Worthless If We Lack The Brain Power To Support And Sustain Them.

Never Miss An Opportunity To Say A Word Of Congratulation Upon Anyone's Achievement.

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This Congress Did More To Uplift Education, More To Attack Disease In This Country And Around The World, And More To Conquer Poverty Than Any Other Session In All American History, And What More Worthy Achievements Could Any Person Want To Have? For It Was The Congress That Was More True Than Any Other Congress To Thomas Jefferson's Belief That: 'the Care Of Human Life And Happiness Is The First And Only Legitimate Objective Of Good Government.'

In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, The Second President Of The Republic Of Texas And The Father Of Texas Education, Declared: 'the Cultivated Mind Is The Guardian Genius Of Democracy. It Is The Only Dictator That Free Man Acknowledges. It Is The Only Security That Free Man Desires.'

...that Though They May Refuse To Grow Wise, They Must Inevitably Grow Old; ...that The Proper Solaces Of Age Are Not Music And Compliments, But Wisdom And Devotion; That Those Who Are So Unwilling To Quit The World Will Soon Be Driven From It; And That It Is Therefore In Their Interest To Retire While There Yet Remain A Few Hours Of Nobler Employments.

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.

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.

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

Poverty Must Not Be A Bar To Learning And Learning Must Offer An Escape From Poverty.

Hug Your Friends Tight, But Your Enemies Tighter ? Hug ?em So Tight They Can?t Wiggle.

You Might Say That Lyndon Johnson Is A Cross Between A Baptist Preacher And A Cowboy.

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.

I May Not Worry As Much As Prime Minister Eshkol Does About Israel, But I Worry As Deeply.

It Is Happily And Kindly Provided That In Every Life There Are Certain Pauses, And Interruptions, Which Force Consideration Upon The Careless, And Seriousness Upon The Light, Points Of Time Where One Course Of Action Ends And Another Begins.

For This Is What America Is All About. It Is The Uncrossed Desert And The Unclimbed Ridge. It Is The Star That Is Not Reached And The Harvest That Is Sleeping In The Unplowed Ground.

Peace Does Not Come Just Because We Wish For It. Peace Must Be Fought For. It Must Be Built Stone By Stone.

All The Historians Are Harvard People. It Just Isn't Fair. Poor Old Hoover From West Branch, Iowa, Had No Chance With That Crowd;nor Did Andrew Jackson From Tennessee. Nor Does Lyndon Johnson From Stonewall, Texas. It Just Isn't Fair.

We Must Change To Master Change.

We Have Heard All Of Our Lives How, After The Civil War Was Over, The South Went Back To Straighten Itself Out And Make A Living Again. It Was For Many Years A Voiceless Part Of The Government. The Balance Of Power Moved Away From It--to The North And The East. The Problems Of The North And The East Became The Big Problem Of The Country And Nobody Paid Much Attention To The Economic Unbalance The South Had Left As Its Only Choice.

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.

I Am Making A Collection Of The Things My Opponents Have Found Me To Be And, When This Election Is Over, I Am Going To Open A Museum And Put Them On Display.

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.

I Am Going To Build The Kind Of Nation That President Roosevelt Hoped For, President Truman Worked For, And President Kennedy Died For.

I'm A Powerful S.o.b., You Know That?

But We Have Not Used Our Waters Well. Our Major Rivers Are Defiled By Noxious Debris. Pollutants From Cities And Industries Kill The Fish In Our Streams. Many Waterways Are Covered With Oil Slicks And Contain Growths Of Algae That Destroy Productive Life And Make The Water Unfit For Recreation. "polluted Water-no Swimming" Has Become A Familiar Sign On Too Many Beaches And Rivers. A Lake That Has Served Many Generations Of Men Now Can Be Destroyed By Man In Less Than One Generation.

We Can Draw Lessons From The Past, But We Cannot Live In It.

Our Most Tragic Error May Have Been Our Inability To Establish A Rapport And A Confidence With The Press And Television With The Communication Media. I Don't Think The Press Has Understood Me.

If You're Not Listening, You're Not Learning.

'if You Let A Bully Come In And Chase You Out Of Your Front Yard, He'll Be On Your Porch And The Next Day He'll Rape Your Wife In Your Own Bed.

[the United States And Israel] Share Many Common Objectives ... Chief Of Which Is The Building Of A Better World In Which Every Nation Can Develop Its Resources And Develop Them In Freedom And Peace.

The Vote Is The Most Powerful Instrument Ever Devised By Man For Breaking Down Injustice And Destroying The Terrible Walls Which Imprison Men Because They Are Different From Other Men.

In This Age When There Can Be No Losers In Peace And No Victors In War; We Must Recognize The Obligation To Match National Strength With National Restraint.

If One Little Old General In Shirt Sleeves Can Take Saigon, Think About 200 Million Chinese Comin' Down Those Trails. No Sir, I Don't Want To Fight Them.

We Do This In Order To Slow Down Aggression. We Do This To Increase The Confidence Of The Brave People Of South Vietnam Who Have Bravely Born This Brutal Battle For So Many Years With So Many Casualties. And We Do This To Convince The Leaders Of North Vietnam-and All Who Seek To Share Their Conquest-of A Simple Fact: We Will Not Be Defeated. We Will Not Grow Tired. We Will Not Withdraw Either Openly Or Under The Cloak Of A Meaningless Agreement.

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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.

The Best Fertilizer For A Piece Of Land Is The Footprints Of Its Owner.

Government Is Best Which Is Closest To The People. Yet That Belief Is Betrayed By Those State And Local Officials Who Engage In Denying The Right Of Citizens To Vote. Their Actions Serve Only To Assure That Their State Governments And Local Governments Shall Be Remote From The People, Least Representative Of The People's Will And Least Responsive To The People's Wishes.

Life Is Never Easy. There Is Work To Be Done And Obligations To Be Met - Obligations To Truth, To Justice, And To Liberty.

Inspirational Life

As Man Draws Nearer To The Stars, Why Should He Not Also Draw Nearer To His Neighbor?

Of Course, I May Go Into A Strange Bedroom Every Now And Then That I Don't Want You To Write About, But Otherwise You Can Write Everything.

I Am Concerned About The Whole Man. I Am Concerned About What The People, Using Their Government As An Instrument And A Tool, Can Do Toward Building The Whole Man, Which Will Mean A Better Society And A Better World.

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.

Let Us Close The Springs Of Racial Poison. Let Us Pray For Wise And Understanding Hearts. Let Us Lay Aside Irrelevant Differences And Make Our Nation Whole.

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.

In Our Home There Was Always Prayer - Aloud, Proud And Unapologetic.

We Must Open The Doors Of Opportunity. We Must Equip Our People To Walk Through Those Doors.

You Know There Is No One In The World I Would Rather Sleep With Than Yuki.

There Are Some, I Know, Who See Beautification As A Frill, As An Extra, Or As Something That Is Luxurious Enough To Postpone. Well, They Make Me Impatient Because I Am Convinced That Beauty And Order In Our Environment Are Not Frills. I Am Convinced That They Are Urgent Necessities Because They Will Determine Whether Our Grandchildren Can Live In A Decent Land Or Whether They Will Be Surrounded By Glittering Junkheaps.

We Have The Opportunity To Move Not Only Toward The Rich Society And The Powerful Society, But Upward To The Great Society.

No Nation In The World Has Had Greater Fortune Than Mine In Sharing A Continent With The People And The Nation Of Canada.

I Do Not Find It Easy To Send The Flower Of Our Youth, Our Finest Young Men, Into Battle.

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.

I'm Gonna Hunker Down Like A Jack Rabbit In A Dust Storm

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.

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.

Education Is Not A Problem. Education Is An Opportunity.

The Great Society Is A Place Where Men Are More Concerned With The Quality Of Their Goods Than With The Quantity Of Their Goods.

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

I'll Tell You What's At The Bottom Of It. If You Can Convince The Lowest White Man He's Better Than The Best Colored Man, He Won't Notice You're Picking His Pocket. Hell, Give Him Somebody To Look Down On, And He'll Empty His Pockets For You.

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.

Every Citizen, Regardless Of His Race, Creed, Or Color, Is Entitled To Equal Justice.

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.

In My State, On The Basis Of The Separate But Equal Doctrine, We Have Made Enormous Strides Over The Years In The Education Of Both Races. Personally, I Think It Would Have Been Sounder Judgment To Allow That Progress To Continue Through The Process Of Natural Evolution. However, There Is No Point Crying About Spilt Milk.

When I Was Young, Poverty Was So Common That We Didn't Know It Had A Name.

It Is Always A Strain When People Are Being Killed. I Don't Think Anybody Has Held This Job Who Hasn't Felt Personally Responsible For Those Being Killed.

Justice Requires Us To Remember That When Any Citizen Denies His Fellow, Saying, 'his Color Is Not Mine,' Or 'his Beliefs Are Strange And Different,' In That Moment He Betrays America, Though His Forebears Created This Nation.

Throughout My Entire Public Career I Have Followed The Personal Philosophy That I Am A Free Man, An American, A Public Servant, And A Member Of My Party, In That Order Always And Only.

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.

We Have Entered An Age In Which Education Is Not Just A Luxury Permitting Some Men An Advantage Over Others. It Has Become A Necessity Without Which A Person Is Defenseless In This Complex, Industrialized Society. We Have Truly Entered The Century Of The Educated Man.

The Future Holds Little Hope For Any Government Where The Present Holds No Hope For The People.

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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In A Thousand Unseen Ways We Have Drawn Shape And Strength From The Land.

When I Was A Boy We Didn't Wake Up With Vietnam And Have Cyprus For Lunch And The Congo For Dinner.

You Do Not Take A Person Who, For Years, Has Been Hobbled By Chains And Liberate Him, Bring Him Up To The Starting Line Of A Race And Then Say, "you Are Free To Compete With All The Others," And Still Justly Believe That You Have Been Completely Fair. We Seek Not Just Legal Equity But Human Ability, Not Just Equality As A Right And A Theory But Equality As A Fact And Equality As A Result.

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