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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."

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"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."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"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."

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."

"I'm an idealist without illusions."

"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."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.""

"We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom."

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

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