#eric

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#dead #drop #i #johnson #still

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#battles #built #cheerful #cut #faith

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american culture #bit #child #culture #every

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american idea #citizen #each #going #her

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #believe #between #closed #day

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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