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. JOHNSONAmbition 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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