Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
JOHN F. KENNEDYVictory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
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Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
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The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
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We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.
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Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don’t have to build a wall to keep my people in.
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Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
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Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
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A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
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The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
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The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
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We need people who can dream of things that never were.
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