As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIt’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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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