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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

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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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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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