It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLight 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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…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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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