Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner in Detroit

06/25/1964

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