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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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- We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
- I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
- The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
- Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.