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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Nature is neutral.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

A hungry man is not a free man.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

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.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Making peace is harder than making war.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

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