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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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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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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

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

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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

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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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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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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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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

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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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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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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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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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