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“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
“The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.”
“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
“A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.”
“There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.”
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”
“Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.”
“I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.”
“We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.”
“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
“Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.”
“When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.”
“It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.”
“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
“Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.”
“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.”
“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
“They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.”