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But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served. That is what I believe. Now, some people have said You let him get enough power and this will lead toward a one-party government. That, I dont believe. I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I dont think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

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Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

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As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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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 have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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

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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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