Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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 do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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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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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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