I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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