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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand
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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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
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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Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
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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Endurance Genius Ourselves Politics Principles Rich
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Battle Flower Men Myself Youth
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
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Excellence Search Success
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
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
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
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
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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Control Destiny People Right Vote
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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Myself Room Strange Writing
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
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Himself Play Sports Walk
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Discover Education Job Journey Nation

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