The noblest search is the search for excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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