"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves."
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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
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"Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft."
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"...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us."
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"Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution."
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"Don't get mad, get even."
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"The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society."
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"GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile"
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"Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly."
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"It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future."
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"The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy."
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"People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership."
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"I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running."
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"People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him."
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"It is immoral to see evil and not act on it."
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"The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions."
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"Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair."
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"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things."
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