To those whom much is given, much is expected.
JOHN F. KENNEDYLet 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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Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
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No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.
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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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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.
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Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
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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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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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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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Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
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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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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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