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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Never give up on anybody.
Never give in and never give up.
Our greatest songs are still unsung.
The President is the peoples lobbyist.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
