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The natural state of a human being is dignity.

Robert Kennedy

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Demand Democracy Freedom Himself Man Opinion Persuade Tolerance Trust
GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
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Compassionate Exception Life Measurement Wisdom Worth
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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Believe Myself People Poverty
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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Fools Freedom Lost Man Mindset Mistake Woman
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
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Fake Lying Recognition Truth
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.
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Beg Earn Grant Refusal
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Criminal Deserve Kind Society
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
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Community Excellence Material Surrender Value
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
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Attitude Destroy Himself Myself Opinion People Talk
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
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Change Fear Force Freedom Fresh Gift Human Master Powerful Reason Strength Work
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Achievement Dare Failure Greatness Inspirational
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time

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