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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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Fast Responsibility Trouble
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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Achievement Future God Gratitude Nature Patriot Remember Technology World
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Excellence Search Success
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
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Agreement Talk
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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Happiness Kindness Person Reflection
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
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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Believe Leadership Price Time
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Fear History Myself Politics War
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
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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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Morning Oneself Reading
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
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
If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
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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Battle Creation Fight Knowledge Man Ourselves Sea Wealth Wild
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Myself Room Strange Writing
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
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
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
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
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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Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember

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