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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1967

I am glad to come here today and to see the foundations that you in Maryland are building, the foundations that you have already laid, the predicates that you have planned for the preservation of freedom and of happiness.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1967

Eduction is the only dictator that free men will ever recognize and the only ruler that free men will accept.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Jan 9, 1967

I have come tonight to ask this Congress and this Nation to resolve that issue: to meet our commitments at home and abroad-to continue to build a better America--and to reaffirm this Nation's allegiance to freedom.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Dec 14, 1966

Few documents in all the history of freedom have ever so illuminated the paths of men.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1966

We in America love and cherish our liberty and our independence and our freedom, and we do not try to impose it upon other people.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1966

It is right, therefore, that I should end my trip through Asia here in Korea, where the four goals of freedom adopted at Manila are on their way to achievement.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 31, 1966

The country I just came from, Malaysia, which, with our British brothers, loves freedom, they came in--Australia, New Zealand, and others--and they stopped the Communist envelopment there.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 31, 1966

As I said in the beginning, until we learn to do our job, understand others, get along, be as efficient, be as competent as you, until the politicians get to understand people, we are going to have to protect liberty and freedom.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 30, 1966

So I stand on this hallowed soil of Korea tonight--for whose freedom thousands of my countrymen died alongside yours--confident that we shall redeem their sacrifice, confident that the cause of freedom will prevail in Asia.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1966

The ties that link the Malaysian and American peoples can only become stronger as we pursue our common goals:--as we build democracy and protect freedom;--as we resist aggression and subversion;--as we seek an end to world tensions; and--as we strive to eliminate ignorance and illiteracy, disease and poverty.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1966

I believe that in the lifetime of men now living, the human race will emerge into the sunlit uplands of peace and freedom.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1966

The very name of your great nation means, in my own language, 'land of the free.'

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 25, 1966

You know what you are fighting for: to give the Vietnamese people a chance to build the kind of nation that they want, free from terror, free from intimidation, free from fear.

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