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 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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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.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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