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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
