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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Live Peace Togetherness Understand
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democracy Myself Time Vote
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
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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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Act Evil Past Present
I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Government Myself One Liner
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
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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End Hard Time Light
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Eyes Goodness Policy Power
We 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.
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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
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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Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Education Possible Problem
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
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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Freedom Ideas Right
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
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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Kiss Loyalty Reality Relationship Rose
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
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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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
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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Morning Oneself Reading
There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Human Issues Right Struggle
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Difference Land People Unity

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