Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvery man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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