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

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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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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A hungry man is not a free man.

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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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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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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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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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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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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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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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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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