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We Need To Remember That The Separation Of Church And State Must Never Mean The Separation Of Religious Values From The Lives Of Public Servants. . . If We Who Serve Free Men Today Are To Differ From The Tyrants Of This Age, We Must Balance The Powers In Our Hands With God In Our Hearts.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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We Need To Remember That The Separation Of Church And State Must Never Mean The Separation Of Religious Values From The Lives Of Public Servants. . . If We Who Serve Free Men Today Are To Differ From The Tyrants Of This Age, We Must Balance The Powers In Our Hands With God In Our Hearts.

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At Times History And Fate Meet At A Single Time In A Single Place To Shape A Turning Point In Man's Unending Search For Freedom.

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

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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

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

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Taxation Without Representation

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

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Bias And Prejudice

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When The Family Collapses, It Is The Children That Are Usually Damaged. When It Happens On A Massive Scale, The Community Itself Is Crippled.

We Must Change To Master Change.

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

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

It Is Very Seldom That Any One Is In Prison For An Ordinary Crime Unless Early In Life He Entered A Path That Almost Invariably Led To The Prison Gate. Most Of The Inmates Are The Children Of The Poor. In Many Instances They Are Either Orphans Or Half-orphans; Their Homes Were The Streets And Byways Of Big Cities, And Their Paths Naturally And Inevitably Took Them To Their Final Fate.

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

All That Hubert Needs Over There Is A Gal To Answer The Phone And A Pencil With An Eraser On It.

Every President Wants To Do Right.

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

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.

I Cannot Say And No Man Could Say That No More Will Be Asked Of Us.

Emancipation Was A Proclamation, But Not A Fact.

I Am A Compromiser And Maneuverer. I Try To Get Something. That's The Way Our System Works.

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.

Nothing So Challenges The American Spirit As Tackling The Biggest Job On Earth....americans Are Stimulated By The Big Job; The Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River Developments, The Tallest Building In The World, The Mightiest Battleship.

. . . 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.

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

How Incredible It Is That In This Fragile Existence We Should Hate And Destroy One Another. There Are Possibilities Enough For All Who Will Abandon Mastery Over Others To Pursue Mastery Over Nature. There Is World Enough For All To Seek Their Happiness In Their Own Way.

The Roman Empire Controlled The World Because It Could Build Roads . . . The British Empire Was Dominant Because It Had Ships. In The Air Age We Were Powerful Because We Had Airplaines. Now The Communists Have Established A Foothold In Outer Space.

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.

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

It Will Help At Every State Along The Road To Learning. For The Pre-school Years We Will Help Needy Children Become Aware Of The Excitement Of Learning.

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

Men Who Have Worked Together To Reach The Stars Are Not Likely To Descend Together Into The Depths Of War And Desolation.

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

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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.

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

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