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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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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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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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

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

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

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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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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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