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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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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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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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

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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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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

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

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

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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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

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

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