No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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