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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.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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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.

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Taxation Without Representation

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And Americans Have Always Stood Ready To Pay The Cost In Energy And Treasure Which Are Needed To Make Those Goals A Reality.

Nothing Is More Despicable Than The Old Age Of A Passionate Man. When The Vigour Of Youth Fails Him, And His Amusements Pall With Frequent Repetition, His Occasional Rage Sinks By Decay Of Strength Into Peevishness; That Peevishness, For Want Of Novelty And Variety, Becomes Habitual; The World Falls Off From Around Him, And He Is Left, As Homer Expresses It, To Devour His Own Heart In Solitude And Contempt.

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I Believe In The American Tradition Of Separation Of Church And State Which Is Expressed In The First Amendment To The Constitution. By My Office - And By Personal Conviction - I Am Sworn To Uphold That Tradition.

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

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I Am Afraid, ... That Health Begins, After Seventy, And Often Long Before, To Have A Meaning Different From That Which It Had At Thirty. But It Is Culpable To Murmur At The Established Order Of The Creation, As It Is Vain To Oppose It. He That Lives, Must Grow Old; And He That Would Rather Grow Old Than Die, Has God To Thank For The Infirmities Of Old Age.

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Great Responsibility

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

Congratulations

For The Primary And Secondary School Years, We Will Aid Public Schools Serving Low-income Families And Assist Students In Both Public And Private Schools.

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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 United States Stands By Its Friends. Israel Is One Of Its Friends Peace Can Be Based Only On Agreement Between The Parties And Agreement Can Be Achieved Only Through Negotiations Between Them. The United States Will Not Impose The Terms Of Peace. The United States Is Prepared To Supply Military Equipment Necessary To Support The Efforts Of Friendly Governments, Like Israel's, To Defend The Safety Of Their People.

We Are Now Embarked On Another Venture To Put The American Dream To Work In Meeting The New Demands Of A New Day. Once Again We Must Start Where Men Would Improve Their Society Have Always Known They Must Begin - With An Educational System Restudied, Reinforced, And Revitalized.

It Is The Excitement Of Becoming - Always Becoming, Trying, Probing, Falling, Resting, And Trying Again- But Always Trying And Always Gaining

I Believe, With Abiding Conviction, That This People-nurtured By Their Deep Faith, Tutored By Their Hard Lessons, Moved By Their High Aspirations-have The Will To Meet The Trials That These Times Impose.

Today, 8 Million Adult Americans, More Than The Entire Population Of Michigan, Have Not Finished 5 Years Of School. Nearly 20 Million Have Not Finished 8 Years Of School. Nearly 54 Million - More Than One-quarter Of All America - Have Not Even Finished High School.

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

Second, This Law Has Become A Special Symbol Of Our Nation's Most Important Purpose: To Fulfill The Individual - His Freedom, His Happiness, His Promise.

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.

You Know, Doing What Is Right Is Easy. The Problem Is Knowing What Is Right.

It's Too Bad, But The Way American People Are, Now That They Have All This Capability, Instead Of Taking Advantage Of It, They'll Probably Just Piss It All Away.

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

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.

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.

Bias And Prejudice

Reporters Are Like Puppets. They Simply Respond To The Pull Of The Most Powerful Strings.

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.

I Will Not Seek, And I Will Not Accept The Nomination Of My Party For Another Term As Your President.

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.

Curtis Le May Wants To Bomb Hanoi And Haiphong. You Know How He Likes To Go Around Bombing.

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.

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

Being President Is Like Being A Jackass In A Hailstorm. There's Nothing To Do But To Stand There And Take It.

This Civil Rights Act Is A Challenge To All Of Us To Go To Work In Our Communities And Our States, In Our Homes And In Our Hearts, To Eliminate The Last Vestiges Of Injustice In Our Beloved Country. So Tonight I Urge Every Public Official, Every Religious Leader, Every Business And Professional Man, Every Working Man, Every Housewife - I Urge Every American - To Join In This Effort To Bring Justice And Hope To All Our People, And To Bring Peace To Our Land.

A Third Place To Build The Great Society Is In The Classrooms Of America. There Your Children's Lives Will Be Shaped. Our Society Will Not Be Great Until Every Young Mind Is Set Free To Scan The Farthest Reaches Of Thought And Imagination. We Are Still Far From That Goal.

No Member Of Our Generation Who Wasn't A Communist Or A Dropout In The Thirties Is Worth A Damn.

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

No One Has The Right To Use America's Rivers And America's Waterways, That Belong To All The People. As A Sewer. The Banks Of A River May Belong To One Man Or One Industry Or One State, But The Waters Which Flow Between The Banks Should Belong To All The People.

I'd Rather Give My Life Than Be Afraid To Give It.

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

'all Men Are Created Equal', 'government By Consent Of The Governed', 'give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death'. Well, Those Are Not Just Clever Words, Or Those Are Not Just Empty Theories.

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.

Of All The Problems Of Conservation, None Is More Urgent That The Polluted Air Which Endangers The American People. We Have Been Fortunate So Far. But We Have Seen That When Winds Fail To Blow, The Concentrations Of Poisonous Clouds Over Our Cities Can Become Perilous.

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.

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

The Hungry World Cannot Be Fed Until And Unless The Growth Of Its Resources And The Growth Of Its Population Come Into Balance. Each Man And Woman-and Each Nation-must Make Decisions Of Conscience And Policy In The Face Of This Great Problem.

Population Problem

New Laboratories And Centers Will Help Our Schools Lift Their Standards Of Excellence And Explore New Methods Of Teaching. These Centers Will Provide Special Training For Those Who Need And Deserve Special Treatment.

I'm The Only President You've Got.

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