As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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.
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