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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
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The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
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