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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. A Democrat from Texas, he also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions.[a]

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The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

Beach, Beaches, Civilization, Litters, Men

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Inspirational, Life, Lose, Motivational, Recover, Yesterday

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.

Bedroom, Course, Everything, May, Want, Writing

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Baptists, Cowboy, Cross, Johnson, Might, Preacher

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Color, Freed, Hundred, Skins, Years

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Achievement, Force, Free, Path, Places, World

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

Belong, Cities, Friends, House, Men, War

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Government, Presidential, Purpose, Serve

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Conquest, Final, Finals, Grasp, Poverty

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.

Differences, Heart, Lay, Spring, Understanding, Wise

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.

Man, Member, Men, Party, Philosophy, Throughout

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

Business, Conflict, Learning, Listening

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.

College, Education, High, Scholarships, School, Studies

No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

Energy, Life, Men, Peace, Think, Wanting

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Buckets, Foamy, Know, Milking, Tails, White

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.

Hour, Life, Matches, Men, Place, Society

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

Control, Destiny, Gives, Giving, People

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Beat, Golf, Lesson, Lessons, President

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Hailstorm, History, Hype, Political, President, Take

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Democrat, Order, United, United States

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