As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.
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