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| Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. |
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| The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. |
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| The basis of effective government if public confidence. |
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| The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter |
| Confidence; Government |
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| The best road to progress is freedom's road. |
| Freedom |
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| The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln |
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| The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. |
| America and Americans; Freedom |
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| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. |
| Courage; Life |
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| The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world |
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| The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." |
| Freedom; Negotiation |
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| The full use of your powers along the lines of excellence |
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| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. |
| Tolerance |
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| The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic |
| Truth |
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| The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds |
| Ignorance |
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| The human mind is our fundamental resource. |
| Mind |
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| The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. |
| Democracy; Ignorance |
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| The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. |
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| The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear |
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| The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man |
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| The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them. |
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