No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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.”
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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 hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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