You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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