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Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.
I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck of power to rest...
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.
I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.
I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.