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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo 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.
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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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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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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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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