Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Freedom is not enough.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.
This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. I have urged Congressexcept when the Nations security is at staketo take action to that end.
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