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If Anybody Has Any Idea Of Hoarding Our Silver Coins, Let Me Say This. Treasury Has A Lot Of Silver On Hand, And It Can Be, And It Will Be Used To Keep The Price Of Silver In Line With Its Value In Our Present Silver Coin. There Will Be No Profit In Holding Them Out Of Circulation For The Value Of Their Silver Content.

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If Anybody Has Any Idea Of Hoarding Our Silver Coins, Let Me Say This. Treasury Has A Lot Of Silver On Hand, And It Can Be, And It Will Be Used To Keep The Price Of Silver In Line With Its Value In Our Present Silver Coin. There Will Be No Profit In Holding Them Out Of Circulation For The Value Of Their Silver Content.

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I Am A Freeman, An American, A United States Senator, And A Democrat, In That Order.

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United States Of America

In Modern Warfare There Are No Victors; There Are Only Survivors.

In Many Places, Classrooms Are Overcrowded And Curricula Are Outdated. Most Of Our Qualified Teachers Are Underpaid, And Many Of Our Paid Teachers Are Unqualified. So We Must Give Every Child A Place To Sit And A Teacher To Learn From. Poverty Must Not Be A Bar To Learning, And Learning Must Offer An Escape From Poverty.

Second, This Law Has Become A Special Symbol Of Our Nation's Most Important Purpose: To Fulfill The Individual - His Freedom, His Happiness, His Promise.

If You Have A Mother-in-law With Only One Eye And She Has It In The Center Of Her Forehead, Don't Keep Her In The Living Room.

For The First Time In Our History It Is Possible To Conquer Poverty.

To Conclude That Women Are Unfitted To The Task Of Our Historic Society Seems To Me The Equivalent Of Closing Male Eyes To Female Facts.

We Are Now Embarked On Another Venture To Put The American Dream To Work In Meeting The New Demands Of A New Day. Once Again We Must Start Where Men Would Improve Their Society Have Always Known They Must Begin - With An Educational System Restudied, Reinforced, And Revitalized.

Scarcely Any Law Of Our Redeemer Is More Openly Transgressed, Or More Industriously Evaded, Than That By Which He Commands His Followers To Forgive Injuries. Samuel

I Cannot Say And No Man Could Say That No More Will Be Asked Of Us.

Effective Law Enforcement And Social Justice Must Be Pursued Together, As The Foundation Of Our Efforts Against Crime.

My Most Fervent Prayer Is To Be A President Who Can Make It Possible For Every Boy In This Land To Grow To Manhood By Loving His Country--instead Of Dying For It.

It Is The Excitement Of Becoming - Always Becoming, Trying, Probing, Falling, Resting, And Trying Again- But Always Trying And Always Gaining

At The Desk Where I Sit, I Have Learned One Great Truth. The Answer For All Our National Problems - The Answer For All The Problems Of The World - Come To A Single Word. That Word Is "education."

Watch Their Hands, Watch Their Eyes. Read Eyes. No Matter What A Man Is Saying To You, It's Not As Important As What You Can Read In His Eyes. The Most Important Thing A Man Has To Tell You Is What He's Not Telling You; The Most Important Thing He Has To Say Is What He's Trying Not To Say.

No One Has The Right To Use America's Rivers And America's Waterways, That Belong To All The People. As A Sewer. The Banks Of A River May Belong To One Man Or One Industry Or One State, But The Waters Which Flow Between The Banks Should Belong To All The People.

In Our Home There Was Always Prayer - Aloud, Proud And Unapologetic.

The Presidency Has Made Every Man Who Occupied It, No Matter How Small, Bigger Than He Was; And No Matter How Big, Not Big Enough For Its Demands.

The Vote Is The Most Powerful Instrument Ever Devised By Man For Breaking Down Injustice And Destroying The Terrible Walls Which Imprison Men Because They Are Different From Other Men.

Mr. Speaker, At A Time When The Nation Is Again Confronted With Necessity For Calling Its Young Men Into Service In The Interestsof National Security, I Cannot See The Wisdom Of Denying Our Young Women The Opportunity To Serve Their Country.

This Is Not Johnson's War. This Is America's War. If I Drop Dead Tomorrow, This War Will Still Be With You.

Once We Considered Education A Public Expense; We Know Now That It Is A Public Investment.

I Feel Like I Just Grabbed A Big Juicy Worm With A Right Sharp Hook In The Middle Of It.

This Is A Moment That I Deeply Wish My Parents Could Have Lived To Share. My Father Would Have Enjoyed What You Have So Generously Said Of Me-and My Mother Would Have Believed It.

It Is Happily And Kindly Provided That In Every Life There Are Certain Pauses, And Interruptions, Which Force Consideration Upon The Careless, And Seriousness Upon The Light, Points Of Time Where One Course Of Action Ends And Another Begins.

If One Little Old General In Shirt Sleeves Can Take Saigon, Think About 200 Million Chinese Comin' Down Those Trails. No Sir, I Don't Want To Fight Them.

It Is Very Seldom That Any One Is In Prison For An Ordinary Crime Unless Early In Life He Entered A Path That Almost Invariably Led To The Prison Gate. Most Of The Inmates Are The Children Of The Poor. In Many Instances They Are Either Orphans Or Half-orphans; Their Homes Were The Streets And Byways Of Big Cities, And Their Paths Naturally And Inevitably Took Them To Their Final Fate.

So, I Would Appeal To My Fellow Americans By Saying, The Only Real Road To Progress For Free People Is Through The Process Of Law And That Is The Road That America Will Travel.

The Fact That A Man Is A Newspaper Reporter Is Evidence Of Some Flaw Of Character.

It Is Always A Strain When People Are Being Killed. I Don't Think Anybody Has Held This Job Who Hasn't Felt Personally Responsible For Those Being Killed.

A Man Can Take A Little Bourbon Without Getting Drunk, But If You Hold His Mouth Open And Pour In A Quart, He's Going To Get Sick On It.

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