To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in 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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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