Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
JOHN F. KENNEDYJustice delayed is democracy denied.
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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
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Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.
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The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.
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Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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Sincerity is always subject to proof.
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
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Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
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Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
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Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
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Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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