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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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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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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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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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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.
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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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