
The spontaneous cooperation of our people is the secret weapon that made America great.
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The spontaneous cooperation of our people is the secret weapon that made America great.

This energy is to propel the machines of progress; to light our cities and our towns; to fire our factories; to provide new sources of fresh water; and to really help us solve the mysteries of outer space as it brightens our life on this…

I am, as President, carefully considering every move made.

All men are diminished by dictatorship and by thought control.

Be of strong heart. Give us your patience without your partisanship.

No people ever need fear negotiating with Americans.

The wisdom of the many is much to be preferred to the decisions of the few.

A great society is not going to be built in this country by Lyndon Johnson.

We defend, and I intend to defend, the right of everyone to disagree, if he wants to, with everything that we urge or everything that we do.

We know that we are an energetic people.

Our dealings with other countries are deeply important to ourselves; they have a deep and important bearing on the lives of the peoples of other lands.

Nice words and solemn warnings of rhetoric won't stop an aggressor or a guerrilla or a Communist.

Let us support our men in Vietnam and send them the message that we will see it through.

The overriding rule which I want to affirm today is this: that our foreign policy must always be an extension of this Nation's domestic policy.

What really made the difference in World War II was the tremendous willpower of the American people.

We are out here to learn about testing new fuels, new materials, new approaches to old problems, new forms of public and private cooperation.

I am asking the Secretaries to make themselves available to you at the conclusion of our meeting and present to you all the information they gave the Cabinet, except for the classified data that was given.

Only in this way can we realize the hopes and advance the well-being of all our citizens and help others who are struggling for a better life in other parts of the world.