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Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. No problem
of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity
for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it
this afternoon!'
When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as
bad as I'd been saying they were.
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this
small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures,
and we are all mortal.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who
are rich.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The
human mind is our fundamental resource.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities,
because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be
translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in
vain.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided men.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -which all reality hinges on moral foundations
If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to
survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital
unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to
describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true
with the false and the false with the true.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to
learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by
the oppressed.
God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men
and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
The time is always right to do what is right.