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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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