I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONArt 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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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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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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