You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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