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We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

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Future, Water, Population
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.360, Best Books on

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

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Usa, United States Of America, Nations
Special Message to the Congress on Immigration, January 13, 1965.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

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War, Crime, Organized

Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Too Much, Air Force

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

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Education, Money, School
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

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Appetite, Aggression
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

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Motivational, Expression, Suffering

We still seek no wider war.

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War, Vietnam War, Stills
Broadcast speech, 4 Aug. 1964

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

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Law, Desire, Machinery
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1001, Best Books on

'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

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Education, White, Race
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

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Men, Liberty, Libertarian
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

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Law, Justice, Effort
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.299, Best Books on

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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Home, Patriotic, Practice
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Fighting, Thinking, Chinese

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Men, Talking

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

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Education, Money, Luxury
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1103, Best Books on

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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Mean, Thinking, Division
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.599, Best Books on

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

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Voting, Vote, Poor

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

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Country, Economy, Poor

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

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Poverty, Firsts, Conquer
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Running, Peace, Heart

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

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Hate, Way, Mastery
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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Names, Poverty, Common
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

True poverty does not come from God.

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Doe, Poverty, Yiddish

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

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Classroom, Trenches, Frontiers