Quotes
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Speech delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
When we think of the challenges of a changing world, we have to think and plan, not for the benefit of special groups, but for the needs of the whole American people; not just for the presently poor, but for those who may fall into difficulty if we do not act now.
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Address at the New York State Association of Towns, New York City
All around us is evidence of the urban crisis of our time. The streets are clogged with traffic. The air is heavy with smoke. Our water is in short supply. And a short subway ride on almost any line— when the subways are running— will bring us to the crowded slums of the city, to…
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Address to the Civil Rights Committee of New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, New York City
The people’s vote is the people’s voice and when some people cannot vote they cannot effectively speak against injustice and deprivation of other rights.
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Address at the International Police Academy Commencement
Guns and bombs cannot build— cannot fill empty stomachs or educate children, cannot build homes or heal the sick. But these are the ends for which men establish and obey government; they will give their allegiance only to governments which meet these needs.
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Address, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
There is a new world about us— beset by hunger, energized by revolution, largely controlled by that half of the world’s people who are under the age of 25.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as the instruments of peace are available, war is madness. Government must be strong wherever madness threatens the peace.
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Speech at the International Water Quality Symposium, Washington, D.C.
We must clean up the streams and lakes. In addition to obvious reasons of health and recreation for doing so, the fact is that this is the most economical way to get at significant sources of water. The Hudson River pours 20 billion gallons a day into the Atlantic, all of which is too polluted…
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Statement Before the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, Syracuse, New York
There is no easy solution to our water pollution problems.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
That which unites us is, must be, stronger than that which divides us. We can concentrate on what unites us, and secure the future for all of our children; or we can concentrate on what divides us, and fail our duty through argument and resentment and waste.
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Statement Before the United States Senate
Our great companies operate in every state in the union. Their manufacturing operations are often spread over dozens of states; they buy their materials and sell their products every
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Have you ever told a coal miner in West Virginia or Kentucky that what he needs is individual initiative to go out and get a job where there isn’t any?
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Senate Speech
The war on poverty, like it or not, is the single outstanding commitment this nation has made to the principle that poverty must be abolished.
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