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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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