John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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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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