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Lyndon Johnson: “To those who urge you to think small, I can only reply: 'Impossible. A nation that has given us the tongue of a…”

On the recordJuly 28, 1966
To those who urge you to think small, I can only reply: 'Impossible. A nation that has given us the tongue of a Shakespeare, the faith of a Milton, and the courage of a Churchill must always be a force for progress, an influence for good, in the affairs of men.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Wilson of Great Britain

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