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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Eyes Goodness Policy Power
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Fear History Myself Politics War
It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Ability Bad People Talent Waste
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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Believe Leadership Price Time
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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Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
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.
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Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Couple Greatness Himself Love Men Religious Wife
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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Fast Responsibility Trouble
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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Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Achievement Future God Gratitude Nature Patriot Remember Technology World
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Government Myself Worst
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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Morning Oneself Reading
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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Freedom Prison Skin Slave Time

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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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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