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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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A hungry man is not a free man.

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

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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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

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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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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 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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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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Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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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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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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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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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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