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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
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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.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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