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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension – the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the “hotline” between the White House and the Kremlin.

Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right – not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God.

In America we have Rockefellers for breakfast.

Exasperation over our struggle in Vietnam should not close our eyes to the fact that we could have other missile crises in the future – different kinds, no doubt, and under different circumstances. But if we are to be successful then, if we are going to preserve our own national security, we will need friends, we will need supporters, we will need countries that believe and respect us and will follow our leadership.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to ‘but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.’

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

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.

Change has its enemies.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

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

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

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.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

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

In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love – carefully.

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.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

I thought they’d get one of us, but Jack, after all he’s been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

I love this city. If I’m elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman’s Wharf and they even let me into Allioto’s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it’s Resurrection City.

Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

In my judgment, the slogan “black power” and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

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

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

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

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

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

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

When Khrushchev asked whether his brass hats would guarantee that keeping the missiles in Cuba would not bring about nuclear war, they looked at him, he later told Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, an informal emissary between Kennedy and Khrushchev, “as though I were out of my mind or, what was worse, a traitor. So I said to myself, ‘To hell with these maniacs.’”6.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: “But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.

Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.

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