There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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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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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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