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Lyndon Johnson: “But what is finally going to determine the winner of that race is not the quantity of our people but the quality of our…”

On the recordJune 25, 1964
But what is finally going to determine the winner of that race is not the quantity of our people but the quality of our citizens; not the measure of our acres, but the type of system of government that we have.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner in Detroit

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