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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThis right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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