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

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

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

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

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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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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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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There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

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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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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

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

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