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At 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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Agreement Talk
In 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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Citizenship Discover Happiness Nation Revolution
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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Fast Responsibility Trouble
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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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
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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Eyes Goodness Policy Power
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.
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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Civilization Development Failure History Lesson Nation Planning Protection Ruin
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Face Loss Yourself
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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Change Difference Nation World
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Freedom Prison Skin Slave Time
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Heart Myself Pride
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
At 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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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Generation Ourselves Worth
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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Achievement Ambition Comfortable Creation Future Men Present Purpose Reality Satisfaction Time
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
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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Bed Entrepreneur Hungry Men Willing
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself

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