State of the Union Address Quotes

“The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“For a closed society is not open to ideas of progress—and a police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“There is more to do. We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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“The mere absence of war is not peace.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning. Most of the 19 men who hijacked planes on September the 11th were trained in Afghanistan's camps, and so were tens of thousands of...”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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“The first step—in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come—is to teach our men to shoot.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

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“For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“As the idealism of our youth has served world peace, so can it serve the domestic tranquility.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

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“We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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