The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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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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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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