I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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