Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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