Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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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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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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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