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“Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.”
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”
“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.”
“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
“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.”
“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
“Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.”
“To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.”
“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
“Never give up on anybody.”
“Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.”
“The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”
“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”