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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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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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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

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