Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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