If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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