Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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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 will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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Democracy 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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