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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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

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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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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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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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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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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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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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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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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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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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