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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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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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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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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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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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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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