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A citizen must be able in confidence to complain to his Government and to provide information, just as he is–and should be–free to confide in the press without fear of reprisal or of being required to reveal or discuss his sources.

— Lyndon B. Johnson Statement on the Freedom of Information Act (1966)

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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.

The American Promise (1965)

There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

The American Promise (1965)

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