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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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

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

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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

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

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

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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 in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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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 hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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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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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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