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Lyndon Johnson

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Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Texas and began his political career as a U.S. Representative in 1937, later becoming a U.S. Senator in 1949. Johnson ascended to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his administration is noted for significant domestic policies, including the Great Society programs aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice. His legislative achievements included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid.

Quotes by year · 196319698,890 total · peak 1966 (3339)
1963: 81 quotes1964: 2,112 quotes1965: 1,508 quotes1966: 3,339 quotes1967: 1,095 quotes1968: 750 quotes1969: 5 quotes
Jan 23, 1968

Pride, because in America we can achieve and protect these rights through the political process.

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Jan 23, 1968

MOST Americans remain true to our goal: the development of a national society in which the color of a man's skin is as irrelevant as the color of his eyes.

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Jan 23, 1968

You have a strong community action program—the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity—and it has brought you new hope by its job training and its home improvement and its legal services.

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Jan 23, 1968

One year later, the world took the first great step toward nuclear sanity--the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

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Jan 22, 1968

We are very heartened by the attitude of the labor people and very grateful and encouraged by the attitude of the business people.

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Jan 22, 1968

So we have revised our manpower program that was training only 75,000 a year in 1963 and is now training over 1 million a year.

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Jan 22, 1968

It has dropped from 7 million to 3.7 million, the lowest in 10 years.

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Jan 22, 1968

I hope that it won't be necessary for us to have any more public employment programs similar to what we had back in the thirties.

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Jan 22, 1968

We are very pleased that the labor people are cooperative and helpful on this.

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Jan 22, 1968

Now industry is going to work with us to help them attain that skill.

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Jan 22, 1968

We know that in the past we have had high levels of unemployment.

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Jan 22, 1968

We should now--with the cooperation of the businessmen of this country and the labor people in this country--try to get at the hard-core unemployed in this country and get them into training and shortly thereafter into jobs.

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Jan 21, 1968

I believe the American people--who know war's cost in lives and fortune--endorse the investment for peace they have made in their program of foreign aid.

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Jan 21, 1968

One of the clearest lessons of modern times is the destructive power of man's oldest enemies.

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Jan 21, 1968

These are victories not of war--but over wars that did not start.

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Jan 21, 1968

The dividends from that investment are lives saved and schools opened and hunger relieved.

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Jan 21, 1968

Where hunger, disease and ignorance abound, the conditions of violence breed.

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Jan 21, 1968

They are the shots that did not sound, the blood that did not spill, the treasure that did not have to be spent to stamp out spreading flames of violence.

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Jan 21, 1968

In the barrios and the rice fields of the developing world they have helped to improve the conditions of life and expand the margin of hope for millions struggling to overcome centuries of poverty.

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Jan 19, 1968

We are trying to do something about it. I am trying to do something about it for the young, for the old, and I hope those of us in the middle can help on it while we can.

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