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Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.
When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.
Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive