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The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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Patriotism
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have 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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Business
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
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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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