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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

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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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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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A man without a vote is man without protection.

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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

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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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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

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We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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