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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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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 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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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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