Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAmbition 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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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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