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"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future."

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

"Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait."

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

"In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners."

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

"You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

"Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."

"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know."

"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.