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To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.
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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.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence, thus condemning humanity to an indefinite future of misery and poverty. We can now begin to hope and, I believe, know that Malthus was expressing not a law of nature, but merely the limitation then of scientific and social wisdom. The truth or falsity of his prediction will depend now, with the tools we have, on our own actions, now and in the years to come.
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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