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"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""
"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans."
"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
"More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future."
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