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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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