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. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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