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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
Jun 27, 1964

I stand totally committed to the integrity of justice and the enforcement of the law.

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Jun 27, 1964

Our support, the steadfast support of nations like Sweden, has made this possible.

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Jun 26, 1964

I WANT to thank the band and all the good people who have come out here to give us such a warm welcome.

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Jun 26, 1964

If our future depended on our numbers, our adversaries could defeat us tonight.

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Jun 26, 1964

In the past 4 years we have moved farther and faster toward the goals that we share than at any time in our country's history.

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Jun 26, 1964

I want to repeat again to you good people who have made this sacrifice to come out here this evening, in all of these fields your principles, Minnesota principles, have helped to shape the progress of all America.

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Jun 26, 1964

And we are going to use all the skill and all the energy that God has given us in order to keep these doors of opportunity open for every child in the land.

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Jun 26, 1964

You no longer stand alone. You are part of a great national forward march, and I am here to tell you that as long as I am President of the United States you will never be alone.

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Jun 26, 1964

I never for a moment entertain a doubt that there is any commissar or any regimented slave labor anywhere in the world that can outproduce or outsurpass or outlive our system of capital, management, and labor in the good old U.S.A.

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Jun 26, 1964

In the past 4 years, under Democratic leadership, we have reached new heights of prosperity.

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Jun 26, 1964

This State has supplied to Washington some of our greatest Democrats.

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Jun 26, 1964

I want to particularly thank the band for coming out and giving us such good music.

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Jun 26, 1964

But we are not going to the American people and tell them that they never had it so good, or don't rock the boat, or let's keep what we have, or stand pat, or keep cool.

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Jun 26, 1964

Resolve tonight to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Jun 26, 1964

I do not yet know the answer to all the problems of agriculture.

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Jun 26, 1964

And I would remind you good Americans tonight that there is a law more hallowed than the civil rights bill, more hallowed than even the Constitution of the United States.

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Jun 26, 1964

We must not be content to sit back in our rocking chair and let the rest of the world go by, because we must have objectives, we must have ambitions, we must have the pioneering spirit today that came to this Nation 200 years ago.

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