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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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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 human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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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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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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