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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

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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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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

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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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

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

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

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

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

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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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