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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the ...more

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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of n...more

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The best road to progress is freedom's road.

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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 submi...more

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right ...more

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Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

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But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities tod...more

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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrin...more

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be b...more

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Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for suc...more