Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
From Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
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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