What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.
I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
Since the days of Greece and Rome the word ‘citizen’ was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
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.
A life without criticism is not worth living.
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.