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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.  
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol a...  
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.  
A hungry man is not a free man.  
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tre...  
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open...  
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper c...  
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace...  
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.  
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then p...  
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politi...  
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.  
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.  
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total co...  
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming on...  
Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing...  
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision o...  
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.  
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ...   Forgiveness
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means noth...  
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little...  
He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then m...  
He who slings mud generally loses ground.  
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.  
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and incre...  
I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will car...  
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.  
I find Paul appealing and Peale appalling.  
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican ...  
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has...  
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give t...  
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned en...  
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will...  
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of...  
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take...  
It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hun...  
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in Ameri...  
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a ho...  
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station ...  
Laws are never as effective as habits.  
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he h...  
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on t...  
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be un...  
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including ...  
Nature is neutral.  
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and t...  
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.  
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.  
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless milli...  
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.  
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranqu...   Patriotism
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.  
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.  
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becom...  
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the Un...  
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be u...  
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone w...  
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words ...  
The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the...  
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without p...  
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.  
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like brea...   Politics
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as t...  
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.  
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.  
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - gr...  
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now i...   Business
This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the bur...  
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal ...  
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances i...  
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.  
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path ...  
We have confused the free with the free and easy.  
We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important busin...  
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of e...  
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it'...  
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the mo...  
You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist,...  
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity-the ketchup bott...  
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest betwee...