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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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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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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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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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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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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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

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

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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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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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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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

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

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