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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

To whom much is given, much is required.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.