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I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Never give up on anybody.

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Never give in and never give up.

Though everyone has an equal right to speak,
not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

Never give in,never give up,never surrender no matter what!

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.