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. JOHNSONLife is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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