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"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
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"It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

"Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation."

"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention."

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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