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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

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

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

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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

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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 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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There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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

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