Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONFree speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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 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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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…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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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