American history Quote by Jeff Sessions

The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma…

— Dick Durbin

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his…

— Tom Wicker

Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even though he…

— Martin Luther King III

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of…

— Thomas Perez

“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor…

— Dan Rather

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most…

— Frank Lautenberg

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm…

— Jeffrey Rosen

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he…

— Abraham Lincoln

“He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least…

— Robert A. Caro

Before I was elected to Congress, I litigated constitutional law cases in federal courts for nearly 20 years, and I found that the best…

— Mike Johnson