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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.
Freedom is not enough.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
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.