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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself
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
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
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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Government People Purpose
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Failure Human Peace War Weapon
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Problem Right Wisdom
I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Government Myself One Liner
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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democracy Myself Time Vote
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

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