I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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