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Lyndon B. Johnson

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
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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Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Inspirational Worst
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Education Possible Problem
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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Believe Leadership Price Time
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democracy Myself Time Vote
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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Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Government Myself Worst
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
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Journey Peace Time
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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Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety
…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
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
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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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Live Peace Togetherness Understand
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
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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Education Justice Men Opportunity Race Skin
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
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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Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Acceptance Myself Seek Yourself
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
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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Kiss Loyalty Reality Relationship Rose
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Excellence Search Success
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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