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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo 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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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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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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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