In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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