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" A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all. "
Will
Living
Independence
" All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. "
Us
World
Difficult
" American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us. "
World
Culture
Good
" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "
America
Diversity
Man
" Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? "
Men
Us
Wealth
" But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? "
Black
God
What If
" Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly. "
Circumstances
Still
Number
" Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope. "
Opportunities
Hope
Men
" Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty. "
Compassion
Freedom
Honesty
" Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. "
Education
Step
Better
" Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. "
Injustice
Hope
Energy
" Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. "
Citizenship
Elections
Us
" Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' "
Him
Boston
Father
" Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. "
Expect
Law
Right
" Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. "
World
Generation
Children
" Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. "
Law
Society
True
" Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. "
Education
Work
Children
" Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
History
Greatness
Small
" Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress. "
Political
Progress
Liberty
" From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life. "
Government
Life
Moment
" Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches. "
Union
Branches
Good
" Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. "
Freedom
Men
Power
" I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten. "
Father
I Am
Become
" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "
Wisdom
Best
I Am
" I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses. "
Always
Facts
Believe
" I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. "
Evil
Long
I Believe
" I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension. "
Freedom
Wall
Understand
" I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest. "
Golf
Football
Family
" I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can. "
Strong
Man
Feelings
" I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country. "
Corruption
Believe
Crime
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