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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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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 will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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