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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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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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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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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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