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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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