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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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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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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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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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