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" Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. "

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" Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. "

" I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me. "

" Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. "

" Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. "

" In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. "

" The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. "

" I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. "

" If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed. "

" We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man. "

" Good union leaders make excellent public leaders in the legislative and executive branches. "

" When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. "

" In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. "

" Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner. "

" Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. "

" The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. "

" 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? "

" If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. "

" Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life. "

" In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe. "

" People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. "

" The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses. "

" Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime. "

" The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures. "

" Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose. "

" Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart. "

" When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not. "

" There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage. "