"I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist."

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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson