To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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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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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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