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Are we like the God of the Old Testament, that we in Washington can decide which cities, towns, and hamlets in Vietnam will be destroyed? Do we have to accept that? I don't think we do. I think we can do something about it.

— Robert F. Kennedy

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

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.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

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