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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

In God We Trust, this doesn't mean everybody for himself and the devil takes the hindmost.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

We feel a debt of gratitude and we want to, in part, repay it by working with our other neighbors.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

The fulfillment of the promise of our Constitution, and an end to American poverty, are among such principles.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

We must have land reform; we must have fiscal reform; we must have tax reform; we must have budget reform.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

I took somewhat far-reaching steps to overhaul the machinery and to strengthen the personnel in the agencies that dealt with our neighbors in this hemisphere.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

It would be such a nice thing if these prophets of doom and gloom, and these apostles of fear and doubt, and these voices of smear and hate, and these suspicious persons who deal in petty things could just come here and see the heart of…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

This is a great Democratic Tuesday in Pittsburgh, and a week from tonight it is going to be a great Democratic Tuesday.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

When the people from Austin make a pact with the people of Boston, Mr. Speaker, that is a contract as long as I have breath in my body.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

There is a feeling of friendship between the neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.

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