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" The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. "

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" President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. "

" Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away. "

" 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. "

" If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. "

" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

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

" One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order. "

" I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest. "

" The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. "

" 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. "

" Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress. "

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

" The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right. "

" 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. "

" Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. "

" Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning. "

" 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. "

" It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "