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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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.
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.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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.
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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.
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.
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.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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 indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.