The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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