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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe 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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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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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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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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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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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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