Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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