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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

If we do in the world what is right and just and good, if we keep our moral responsibilities and if we meet our opportunities, our purpose and our conduct can change the entire world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

In your lifetime and mine, there has never been a moment when America more needed its unity, or the world more needed a united America, than today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The guideposts provide the public with a means of judging whether the price and wage decisions made by business and labor are noninflationary and therefore consistent with the public interest.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

For this richest and strongest and most successful society in the history of mankind, there just must be a moral commitment to wipe away the causes of poverty and ignorance and disease.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

There is nothing to be gained from rattling our rockets or bluffing with our bombs, because we know, and our adversaries know, that we have the might.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The guideposts are a sound basis for continued price stability and are increasingly important as our economy rises closer and closer to its full potential.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

Wholesale prices are, on the average, 0.1 percent below 5 years ago, and down 0.3 percent since the beginning of this year.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

It is mighty easy to talk like a bravado when you are talking about someone else's sons, but when you get up where your thumb has the responsibility for touching that button, and you get to thinking about the consequences of that act that…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

The American people really don't give a tinker--don't care about what I think about my opponent, and I doubt that they have much doubt about what he thinks about me.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

The first thing that you ought to get in your noggin is telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

The National Government, as a constructive partner in a creative federalism, should help restore fiscal balance and strengthen State and local governments by making available for their use some part of our great and growing Federal tax…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

That bipartisan foreign policy has kept us out of war and has kept us at peace, and has left your boy at home.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

As your Commander in Chief--and Harry Sheppard had a lot to do with this--I can tell you tonight that the United States is the strongest and the mightiest nation in the world--the United States is stronger than all the other nations of the…

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