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" What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people. "

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" 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. "

" There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. "

" 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. "

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" Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. "

" 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. "

" We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy. "

" It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation. "

" The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product. "