If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThis 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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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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