No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf 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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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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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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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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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