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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.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

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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.

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

Congratulations

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A Man Without A Vote Is Man Without Protection.

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

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

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Every Man Should Know That His Conversations, His Correspondence, And His Personal Life Are Private.

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

Inspirational Presidential

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A President's Hardest Task Is Not To Do What Is Right, But To Know What Is Right.

Jack Was Out Kissing Babies While I Was Out Passing Bills. Someone Had To Tend The Store.

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

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If The American People Don't Love Me, Their Descendants Will.

Any Man Who's Not Willing To Take Half A Loaf In A Negotiation, Well, That Man Never Went To Bed Hungry.

A Clear Stream, A Long Horizon, A Forest Wilderness And Open Sky - These Are Man's Most Ancient Possessions. In A Modern Society, They Are His Most Priceless.

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.

For The College Years We Will Provide Scholarships To High School Students Of The Greatest Promise And Greatest Need And Guarantee Low-interest Loans To Students Continuing Their College Studies.

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.

I Taught School In The Early Days Of My Manhood And I Think I Know Something About Mothers. There Is A Thread Of Aspiration That Runs Strong In Them. It Is The Fiber That Has Formed The Most Unselfish Creatures Who Inhabit This Earth. They Want Three Things Only; For Their Children To Be Fed, To Be Healthy, And To Make The Most Of Themselves.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Law Is The Great Civilizing Machinery. It Liberates The Desire To Build And Subdues The Desire To Destroy.

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.

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.

So, I Would Appeal To My Fellow Americans By Saying, The Only Real Road To Progress For Free People Is Through The Process Of Law And That Is The Road That America Will Travel.

Our Partnership Has Been Built On Four Pillars The First Pillar Is Peace. The Second Pillar Is Freedom. The Third Pillar Is Respect. The Fourth Pillar Is Cooperation.

In Addition To Our Existing Programs, I Will Recommend A New Program For Schools And Students With A First-year Authorization Of $1,500 Million.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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