I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDemocracy 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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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 guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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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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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.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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