To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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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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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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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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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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