You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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If 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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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