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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.

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

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

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?

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.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

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.

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.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

I'm tired of chasing people.

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

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.

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

Your life can be anything you want it to be.

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

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

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.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

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

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

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

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands.

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

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

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

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.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

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

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

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

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

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

All of us might wish at times...

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

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.

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

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

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

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

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.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

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

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

If you never quit, youll never fail.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

Oh no, oh no ... don't lift me, don't lift me.

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

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Some men see the world as it is and say 'Why?' I see the world as it could be and say, 'Why not?'

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.