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. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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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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