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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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