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" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hardest
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President
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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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" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. "
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" I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. "
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" Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. "
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" I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. "
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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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" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "
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" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "
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" When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. "
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" You aren't learning anything when you're talking. "
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" I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. "
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Open
Museum
" They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. "
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Should
Call
" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "
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Bills
" I'm the only president you've got. "
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Only
President
" 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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" Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. "
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Knowing
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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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Society
Me
" 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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American
Political
" Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. "
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Bar
Escape
" I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. "
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Favor
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" The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. "
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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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Justice
Men
" If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. "
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Me
" I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. "
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" Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. "
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" I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. "
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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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People
" You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. "
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