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1722 President Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Courage Life Dramatic Spectacle
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Modern Skeptics Entrust Minds
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
War Exist Conscientious Objector
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art Nourish Culture Society
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Basic World Problems Susceptible
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Time Repair Roof Sun
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind
Mankind Put End War
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Never Fear Negotiate
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nations Wishes Well Price
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Prefer World Law World
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Expect Nations Adopt System
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
Child Miseducated Lost
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Power Leads Arrogance Poetry
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Man Moon Nation Work
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Dare Fall Miserably Achieve
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Man Problems Solved Destiny
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Road Freedom Best
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Man Die Nations Fall
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Power Best Generation Mankind
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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Children Dawn Elderly Government
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Turns Often Been Between
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Stands Man Every Behind
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Taken Right Include Heard
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Blame Else Human Politics
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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Detour Good Hell Pretty
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Never give in and never give up.
Give Never
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Compassion Concern Socialism Unfortunate
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Important Keys Healthy body Dynamic
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Problems World Solved Skeptics
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Law Life.stand World Past
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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Adventure Life Change Child
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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Real Life Cities Sense
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Defend Extend Idea Lose
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Live History Permit
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Wish Join Way March
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort Courage Enough Purpose
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Replace Hand Never Helping
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Man Human Consequences Obstacles
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Time Bring Power Future
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

You Say Settle Happens
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Nation Afraid Judge Truth
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Concern Future Past Rigid
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Unconditional War Longer Lead
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Society Effluent Been Also
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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Use Time Tool Couch
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Love Friendship Therapy Healing
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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