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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe 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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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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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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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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