Political Quotes

On the recordOctober 2, 1965
When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration Bill, Liberty Island, New York

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