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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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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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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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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

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

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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

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

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

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

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

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