We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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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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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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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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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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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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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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.
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