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

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

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

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

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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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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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

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

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

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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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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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