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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Couple Greatness Himself Love Men Religious Wife
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Education Possible Problem
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Agreement Talk
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.
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Battle Creation Fight Knowledge Man Ourselves Sea Wealth Wild
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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Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
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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Myself Room Strange Writing
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
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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Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Fear History Myself Politics War
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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Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Ability Bad People Talent Waste
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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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

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