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"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
"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."
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
"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."
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
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