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. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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