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

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

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

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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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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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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

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

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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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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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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

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

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

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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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