If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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