This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.
I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
We must change to master change.
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.
If you're not listening, you're not learning.
There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
President Can't Swim.
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.
There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
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