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“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”

“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.”

“Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.”

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Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

“With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.”

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Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“the better angels of our nature”

“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... 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.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.”

“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."”

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Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.”

“The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."”

“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”

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Book:Paine: Political Writings

Source: Paine: Political Writings

“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”

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Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.”

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.”

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Book:Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches

“The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The Almighty has His own purposes.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“We will respond to the threat of climate change”

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Author:Barack Obama

“So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

“For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.”

“I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.”

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Author:Joe Klein

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