One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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