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"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 satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise."	Barbara Charline Jordan
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."	Mary Ellen Kelly
"The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."	George Frost Kennan
"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."	George Frost Kennan
"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... 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." (Announcing blockade of Cuba)"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"[The] American temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."	Robert Francis Kennedy
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