"Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others."
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"Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it."
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"It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain"
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"In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit."
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"Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection."
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"The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment."
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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
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"...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
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"I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware."
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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"The natural state of a human being is dignity."
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"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle."
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"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."
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"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease."
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"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."
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"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country."
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"Send forth a tiny ripple of hope."
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"We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason."
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"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
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"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man"
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