…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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe 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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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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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