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Things are more like they

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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An intellectual is a man

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Don't join the book burners.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
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I can think of nothing

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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I would rather try to

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
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Though force can protect in

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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A people that values its

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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I could have spoken from

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)
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Farming looks mighty easy when

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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I have one yardstick by

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America
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