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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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Change Difference Nation World
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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Ability Bad People Talent Waste
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Face Loss Yourself
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Inspirational Worst
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Problem Right Wisdom
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Battle Creation Fight Knowledge Man Ourselves Sea Wealth Wild
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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Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
John 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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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Failure Human Peace War Weapon
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Act Evil Past Present
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Art Guide Nation Ourselves Reveal Vision
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Excellence Search Success
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Live Peace Togetherness Understand
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Journey Peace Time
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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Death Kind Myself Nation Vision
John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Fashion Money Worth

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