If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOne 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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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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 guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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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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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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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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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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