More from Lyndon B. Johnson
- Often credited to Margaret Thatcher
It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)
Presidents and Congresses, laws and lawsuits can open the doors to the polling places and open the doors to the wondrous rewards which await the wise use of the ballot. But only the individual Negro, and all others who have been denied the right to vote, can really walk through those doors, and can use that right, and can transform the vote into an instrument of justice and fulfillment.
Lyndon B. Johnson on voting
Remarks on signing the Voting Rights Act (6 August 1965)
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