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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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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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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat 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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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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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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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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