If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJerry 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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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