Category: Politics – This Quote

January 18, 1892 – To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

January 17, 1961 – In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

January 16, 1991 – No President can easily commit our sons and daughters to war. They are the Nation’s finest.

January 15, 2025 – I’ve always believed and I’ve told other world leaders America can be defined by one word: possibilities.

January 14, 1963 – This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

January 13, 1984 – All of us share a dream. It’s a dream of a broad and open land that offers prosperity to all. It’s a dream of a great country that represents a force for peace and goodwill among nations. It’s a dream of a land where every citizen is judged not according to color, religion, or sex, but on the sole basis of individual merit; a land where every woman and man is free to become all that she or he can.

January 12, 1988 – That principle, which goes to the very essence of America, is simply this: that it is self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

January 11, 1944 – We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

January 10, 1957 – In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

January 09, 1940 – We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

January 08, 1964 – This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America

January 07, 1960 – We must strive to break the calamitous cycle of frustrations and crises which, if unchecked, could spiral into nuclear disaster; the ultimate insanity