Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
I’m the only president you’ve got.
I’m gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm.
Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.
New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky – these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people’s rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.