There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt 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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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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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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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