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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 · 1963–19698,888 total · peak 1966 (3339)
1963: 81 quotes1964: 2,112 quotes1965: 1,507 quotes1966: 3,339 quotes1967: 1,094 quotes1968: 750 quotes1969: 5 quotes
Jun 22, 1964

It is tragic that we have tended to neglect these areas amid the rush of metropolitan growth.

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Jun 22, 1964

It cannot come without education or without leadership, or without patience and perseverance.

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Jun 22, 1964

We must clean up our air, clean up our rivers, clean up our streams, and open up the land for our people if we are to preserve the heritage and the healthiness of our American life.

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Jun 22, 1964

If we don't act promptly, and we don't act prudently and progressively, we will face a real crisis in the quality of American life.

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Jun 22, 1964

No nation anywhere at any time has had to face the multitude or magnitude of unprecedented problems that we must meet and master in maintaining the quality of life in metropolitan America.

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Jun 22, 1964

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 11143 of March 2, 1964 (29 F.R. 3127), be, and it is hereby, amended by substituting '45 members' for '40 members' in…

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Jun 21, 1964

The new standard, the new goal of Government, and within Government, must therefore be the standard goal of excellence.

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Jun 21, 1964

The day has passed when Government jobs are the easy jobs of our society, or when the public service is the refuge of those inadequate for the demands of private competition.

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Jun 21, 1964

It gives me great pleasure to ask my guests to join me in a toast to the continued close friendship between our countries, to the President of Turkey, and to success in our mutual determination to preserve world peace and justice.

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Jun 21, 1964

I hereby designate the Attorney General of the United States as the officer authorized to administer and give effect to the provisions of that Agreement.

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Jun 21, 1964

Nowhere is that admiration greater or more sincere, Mr. Prime Minister, than in the United States of America.

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Jun 21, 1964

I am personally very grateful and personally very proud of you today.

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Jun 21, 1964

The Attorney General is authorized to delegate any of the functions conferred upon him by this order to any officer or employee of the Department of Justice.

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Jun 21, 1964

Freedom, as our forefathers conceived it, meant the liberation of the individual from oppression by his own government.

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Jun 21, 1964

Since this is an election year, I guess I had better not say that Brom Smith is the most valuable man in the White House.

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Jun 19, 1964

Help us--help us to open the doors of America's abundance and freedom's promise to every man, whatever his race, or his region, or his religion.

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Jun 19, 1964

Education is a national need, and I want to assure you that as long as I am President, the education of your children is going to receive top priority by the men who lead your Nation.

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Jun 19, 1964

I do not intend for us to settle for an uneasy peace for the world, or an inferior society for America, or an inadequate education for our children.

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Jun 19, 1964

Just the day before he died, our beloved late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote: 'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.'

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Jun 18, 1964

California is responsible for 23.1 percent of our entire defense effort in the United States, more than twice as much as its nearest competitor.

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