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Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.
In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
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.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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.
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
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.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
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 eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
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.
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.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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 future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present
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.
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.