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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
[ Accuracy ]
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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.
[ Vision ]
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
[ Flattery ]
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
[ Golf ]
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
[ Principles ]
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
[ Life and Living ]
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
[ Habit ]
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
[ Words ]
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
[ Survival ]
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
[ Generations ]
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
[ Brotherhood ]
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
[ Power ]
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
[ Freedom of Speech ]
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
[ Civilization ]
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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
[ Platitudes ]
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
[ Understanding ]
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
[ Freedom ]
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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
[ Age and Aging ]
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