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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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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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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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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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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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

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

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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

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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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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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