As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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