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" I'm the only president you've got. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" A man without a vote is man without protection. "

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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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" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "

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" There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. "

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" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "

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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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" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "

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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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" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "

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" Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "

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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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" We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. "

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" The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. "

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" We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "

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