"The rights of every man are diminished..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
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“Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.”
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
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“Let the punishment match the offense.”
“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”
“When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.”
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“It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.”
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”
“Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.”