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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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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Achievement Enemy Force Goal Recognition War
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Act Evil Past Present
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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Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Education Justice Men Opportunity Race Skin
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Live Peace Togetherness Understand
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Government People Purpose
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
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
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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Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
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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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Government Myself One Liner
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Believe Education Investment Money Myself Yourself
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Funny History Politics
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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Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Fools Give Up People Time Try
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Acceptance Myself Seek Yourself
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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Book Country Enough Equality Law Right Talk Writing
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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Kiss Loyalty Reality Relationship Rose
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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Difference Land People Unity
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Inspirational Life Lose Motivational Ourselves Success Win
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
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.
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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
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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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Democracy Politics
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

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 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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