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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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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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

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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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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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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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

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

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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

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

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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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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

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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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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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