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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNever miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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