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A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
- Abortion
- Morality
It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Address to the nation announcing he would not seek re-election (31 March 1968)
- America
This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham; an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973Speech in Austin, Texas (22 May 1948), as quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968)
- Race
Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1763)
If you’re born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you’re born in sin. But if you’re born in socialism, you’re not born in sin.
Jim Jones1931–1978“The Letter Killeth.” Original material reprint. Department of Religious Studies. San Diego State
- America
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr1808–1890
“Socialism with a human face”? … Frankenstein also had a human face.
Garry Kasparovborn 1963Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
- Clever Jabs
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Presidency
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at “Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland (18 February 1958)
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956)
- Poetry
Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech at NATO Headquarters, Naples Italy (2 July 1963)
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968“I Remember, I Believe,” The Pursuit of Justice (1964)
- Power
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Ted Kennedy1932–2009Address to the Democratic National Convention, New York (12 August 1980)
- Hope