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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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.
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.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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