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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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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 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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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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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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's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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