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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

We must exercise great care against any use of this power to destroy the world, to poison the world's atmosphere, or to cripple any single human being.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

The American nation seeks constantly to foster the development of free nations cooperating for their mutual benefit.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

There is much in Georgia to remind me of Texas--the people are loyal, the people are hospitable, and the people are kind.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

With patience and good sense, and the help of God, we will not have to use what we have created to defend ourselves.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

But we have issues, and we are going to spend a few minutes' time that we have before we go to Augusta and to Columbia exercising our right of free speech in a free country to talk about those issues.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

We rejoice that Zambia has become free and now joins the other independent states of Africa in seeking a better life for its people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

Instead, we have chosen the slower but surer path of progress through a more competitive, efficient, and prosperous domestic economy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

He has given a demonstration of leadership and statesmanship that is respected from Maine to California.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

We will keep America on the tried and the tested and the trusted course of responsibility, and in this nuclear age, neither we nor the world can afford even a moment of recklessness, not even a breath of bluff or bluster.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

Our interest in your example is greatly heightened by our own efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the United States.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1964

Your President will have in his hand, inescapably, the power of life and death for hundreds of millions of people on this planet.

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