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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.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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The Organization Of American States Couldn't Pour Piss Out Of A Boot If The Instructions Were Written On The Heel.

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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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I Feel Like I Just Grabbed A Big Juicy Worm With A Right Sharp Hook In The Middle Of It.

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Effective Law Enforcement And Social Justice Must Be Pursued Together, As The Foundation Of Our Efforts Against Crime.

If A Single Act Of Folly Was More Responsible For This Explosion Than Any Other It Was The Arbitrary And Dangerous Announced Decision That The Straits Of Tiran Would Be Closed. The Right Of Innocent, Maritime Passage Must Be Preserved For All Nations

If We Fail Now, Then We Will Have Forgotten In Abundance What We Learned In Hardship: That Democracy Rests On Faith; Freedom Asks More Than It Gives; And The Judgment Of God Is Harshest On Those Who Are Most Favored.

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Every Old Man Complains Of The Growing Depravity Of The World, Of The Petulance And Insolence Of The Rising Generation. He Recounts The Decency And Regularity Of Former Times, And Celebrates The Discipline And Sobriety Of The Age In Which His Youth Was Passed; A Happy Age Which Is Now No More To Be Expected, Since Confusion Has Broken In Upon The World, And Thrown Down All The Boundaries Of Civility And Reverence.

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I Want Real Loyalty. I Want Someone Who Will Kiss My Ass In Macy's Window, And Say It Smells Like Roses.

We Still Seek No Wider War.

...where Legitimate Opportunities Are Closed, Illegitimate Opportunities Are Seized. Whatever Opens Opportunity And Hope Will Help To Prevent Crime And Foster Responsibility.

But, Most Of All, The Great Society Is Not A Safe Harbor, A Resting Place, A Final Objective, A Finished Work. It Is A Challenge Constantly Renewed, Beckoning Us Toward A Destiny Where The Meaning Of Our Lives Matches The Marvelous Products Of Our Labor.

There Are Plenty Of Recommendations On How To Get Out Of Trouble Cheaply And Fast. Most Of Them Come Down To This: Deny Your Responsibility.

For Every Generation, There Is A Destiny. For Some, History Decides. For This Generation, The Choice Must Be Our Own. [...] Our Destiny In The Midst Of Change Will Rest On The Unchanged Character Of Our People, And On Their Faith.

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

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.

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.

Doing What's Right Isn't The Problem. It Is Knowing What's Right.

The Last Thing I Wanted To Do Was To Be A Wartime President.

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

War Is Always The Same. It Is Young Men Dying In The Fullness Of Their Promise. It Is Trying To Kill A Man That You Do Not Even Know Well Enough To Hate. Therefore, To Know War Is To Know That There Is Still Madness In The World.

The Prospect Of Penury In Age Is So Gloomy And Terrifying That Every Man Who Looks Before Him Must Resolve To Avoid It; And It Must Be Avoided Generally By The Science Of Sparing. For, Though In Every Age There Are Some Who, By Bold Adventures, Or By Favorable Accidents, Rise Suddenly To Riches, Yet It Is Dangerous To Indulge Hopes Of Such Rare Events; And The Bulk Of Mankind Must Owe Their Affluence To Small And Gradual Profits, Below Which Their Expense Must Be Resolutely Reduced.

There Are Two Kinds Of Speeches: The Mother Hubbard Speech, Which, Like The Garment, Covers Everything But Touches Nothing, And The French Bathing Suit Speech, Which Covers Only The Essential Points.

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.'

Democracy Is A Constant Tension Between Truth And Half-truth And, In The Arsenal Of Truth, There Is No Greater Weapon Than Fact.

Freedom Is Not Enough.

The Fifth Freedom Is Freedom From Ignorance.

The American Indian, Once Proud And Free, Is Torn Now Between White And Tribal Values; Between The Politics And Language Of The White Man And His Own Historic Culture. His Problems, Sharpened By Years Of Defeat And Exploitation, Neglect And Inadequate Effort, Will Take Many Years To Overcome.

I Wake Up 5 A.m. Some Mornings And Hear The Planes Coming In At National Airport And I Think They Are Bombing Me.

Control Of Space Means Control Of The World.

The Final Conquest Of Poverty Is Within Our Grasp.

If We Become Tow People-the Suburban Affluent And The Urban Poor, Each Filled With Mistrust And Fear Of The Other-then We Shall Effectively Cripple Each Generation To Come.

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.

I Have Learned That Only Two Things Are Necessary To Keep One's Wife Happy. First, Let Her Think She's Having Her Own Way. And Second, Let Her Have It.

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