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. 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.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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 have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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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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