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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Not to destroy but to construct
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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