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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn 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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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