A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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

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

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

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Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

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

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More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test.

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.

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When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

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