The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEvil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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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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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 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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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