"Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it."
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"Some friends leave footprints in your heart"
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"Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself."
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"All of life is a constant education."
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"I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few"
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"We will never have peace without friendship around the world."
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"On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace."
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"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
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"So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it."
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"Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist."
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"If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it."
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"The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities."
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"What one has to do usually can be done."
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"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."
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"Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do."
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"Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people."
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"The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World."
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