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. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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 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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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