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- For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached…
- I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
- Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or…
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
- If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
- You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race,…
- We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we…
- All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
- Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have…
- "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words,…
- An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they…
- We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have…
- To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
- The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
- This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and…
- No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a…
- At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the…
- The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or…
- In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid…
- This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
- Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.
- ...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full…
- No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for…
- Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished…
- Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle