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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 15, 1966

We seek only one real monument, a monument with peace and progress for its base and justice for its pinnacle.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 23, 1965

The Government's paramount interest 'is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· 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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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 26, 1964

But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 17, 1964

We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength; and the just can be strong in the defense of justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1964

So I am not trying to improve my character; I am trying to be just and fair and honest.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 30, 1964

The demands upon courts of law are many, and they are varied, but the courts that we create in specialized fields as much as other courts must serve the same end, and that is the good of all men.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 6, 1964

These common purposes--prosperity, justice, and peace--are the foundation of American unity.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 4, 1964

We must subordinate our loyalty to any group to a greater loyalty and commitment to the moral principle upon which this Republic was founded, that is, to freedom and to justice and to the brotherhood of man.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 28, 1964

We couldn't make any precommitments and we wouldn't sign a blank check to a treaty that we didn't know what was in it, but that we would do what was fair, what was right, and what was just.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 11, 1963

It must be our purpose to continue steady progress until the promise of equal rights for all has been fulfilled.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

We look toward the day when the men and women of Poland shall stand again in freedom and justice, and we shall hasten, by every honorable and responsible means, the arrival of that day.

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Jun 18, 1957

This man is to be tried by someone, and I believe that it would be bad for anyone in official position to take advantage of official reports.

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