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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

One candidate is roaming around the country saying what a terrible thing the Government is.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

Well, there is nothing cold about your welcome here today--and I thank each of you from the bottom of a grateful heart.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

I am proud to say to you tonight that I sat in all but one of those 37 meetings, and the coolest man in that room all the time was the man that you people had selected to lead you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

We passed the wilderness bill to help preserve nature's wealth in Wyoming and the West.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

We have a Bill of Rights; we are also developing a Bill of Responsibilities, and that will be the guidepost of my administration.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

We pick them young, we pick them honest, we send them there, and then we keep them there

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1964

Our opponent has said: 'The child has no right to an education. In most cases, the children will get along very well without it.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1964

We live in a world with 120 nations, and each one of those nations has its own idea about what is best for its own people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1964

In your child's lifetime, if not in yours, and I think in yours, but in your child's lifetime we are going to be using the water from the sea to make the deserts bloom.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1964

We are going to continue under the program that Stewart Udall has working now, and we are making progress on it every day.

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