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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn 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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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 are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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