Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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 dwelling place of the free mind.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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.
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Nature is neutral.
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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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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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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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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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