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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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

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

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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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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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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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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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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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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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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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