Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONFree 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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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