The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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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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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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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.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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