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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 218
AUTHOR: Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73)
QUOTATION: I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.
ATTRIBUTION: President LYNDON B. JOHNSON, remarks to the International Platform Association, August 3, 1965.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 2, p. 822.
SUBJECTS: Civil rights