As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere 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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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