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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

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We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

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I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

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Gross national product…measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

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The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

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I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

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You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

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I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

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The United States Government has taken steps to make sure that the constitution of the United States applies to all individuals.

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Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.… It should pervade the heart, the halls of justice, and the chambers of the mind.

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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.

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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

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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

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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

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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.

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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

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If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

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The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

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Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

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