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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 22, 1966

We shall fight for freedom in Vietnam--knowing that as we do, we fight not just for freedom and liberty in Vietnam, but we fight for freedom and liberty in Australia, in New Zealand, in Hawaii, in the United States of America, and freedom and liberty wherever men cherish it.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 21, 1966

The protection of freedom where freedom is threatened has more ultimate meaning throughout the world than all the products or technology that we may ever export.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 19, 1966

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 17, 1966

Not all of us can help directly to win the fight for freedom in Vietnam, but every one of us can do his share to support our men who are out there in Vietnam fighting for us.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 16, 1966

If our magnificent young men can die for freedom in a foreign land, how can we refuse any of them a full measure of freedom and opportunity here at home?

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 15, 1966

It is simply that there is no rest from the trials of freedom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of progress will not permit us to name the site for our duel or the weapons that we use.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 9, 1966

Nothing in our proud heritage surpasses the significance of that great struggle for freedom nearly two hundred years ago.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 16, 1965

We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the companion of progress.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 31, 1965

Let no citizen that is secure in his own liberty ever forget how precious it is and how brave we must be if we are to keep it.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

We shall be just, and we shall be prudent, and we shall also be prompt and brave, for we are determined here in America that peace shall not perish, and the cause of freedom shall not be failed.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 20, 1964

To abandon our commitments, to withdraw from our responsibilities, would endanger free men and free women everywhere, and would bring the hope for peace to an end.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 20, 1964

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 19, 1964

We are prepared to defend peace and freedom and do it promptly against any act of hostility or aggression anywhere.

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