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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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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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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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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