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We in the South were ready for reconciliation, to be accepted as equals, to rejoin the mainstream of American political life. This yearning fo...
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They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspa...
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The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence,...
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking fo...
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Rosalynn said, 'Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they m...
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Sadat was a great and good man, and ... his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals...
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Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I'm not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own p...
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It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the p...
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decis...
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I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty...
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I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.
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As we meet here at Camp David we ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberations.
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All of us recognize the great benefits to our own nation and to the world of a strong and progressive Iran. Your support of the Camp David acc...
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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with a serious handicap as they enter college or private life where freedom of speech will be permitted.
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
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We cannot be both the worldÆs leading champion of peace and the worldÆs leading supplier of arms
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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This is a great example of international teamwork focused on extending the protection provided by the Aegis BMD Weapon System.
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There's a fairly painful procedure of plucking out all the child's eyelashes...and treatment beyond that to prevent a recurrence of the illness,
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There was no doubt that we could prevail militarily, but I think that the vice president and secretary of defense and others said that we were going to be treated with euphoria, crowds who would welcome us there, and the problems of administration of Iraq's economic and political affairs was going to be an easy job,
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