The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
JOHN F. KENNEDYNo sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.
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The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.
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Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
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Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.
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No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
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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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The rising tide lifts all the boats.
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
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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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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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History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
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So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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