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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Eyes Goodness Policy Power
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Democracy Politics
I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democracy Myself Time Vote
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
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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Easy Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Truth
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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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
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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Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Act Evil Past Present
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Live Peace Togetherness Understand
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Problem Right Wisdom
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
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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Destroy Each Other Knowledge Live Understand

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