"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."

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"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."

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"A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe."

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"Flattery is all right if you don't inhale."

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

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"We have confused the free with the free and easy."

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"A hungry man is not a free man."

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

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"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."

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

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

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

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"Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag."

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"Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This is the verse you grave for me:
'Here he lies where he longed to be;
Here is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'"

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

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"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!"

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"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

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"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

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

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"The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams."

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

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

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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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"Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely."

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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."

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