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. JOHNSONIt’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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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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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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