At 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.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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We 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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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