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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Democracy Politics
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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Funny Happiness Herself Inspirational Learning Life Myself Thinking Wife
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.
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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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Citizenship Discover Happiness Nation Revolution
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
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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Kiss Loyalty Reality Relationship Rose
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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Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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Fast Responsibility Trouble
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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Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Failure Human Peace War Weapon
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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Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Funny History Politics
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
…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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Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
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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Government Myself Worst
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Education Possible Problem
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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Himself Play Sports Walk
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Control Destiny People Right Vote
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democracy Myself Time Vote
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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Education Justice Men Opportunity Race Skin
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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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Journey Peace Time

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