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

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

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

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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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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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

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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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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

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

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

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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