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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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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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