My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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Not to destroy but to construct
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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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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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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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And when we lose faith in the system
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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