There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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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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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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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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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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