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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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
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
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
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Freedom Ideas Right
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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Heart Myself Pride
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
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
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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Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Difference Land People Unity
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
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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Government People Purpose
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Equality Justice Myself
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Fear History Myself Politics War
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Believe Education Investment Money Myself Yourself
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
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Inspirational Life Lose Motivational Ourselves Success Win
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
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
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Democracy Government Greatness Honesty Truth Weapon
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Change Difference Nation World
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
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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Education Learning Myself Oneself Problem Truth Word

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