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Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The conflict of master and slave vanished and became, instead, a harmony of interaction and mutual dependency…For the masters were servants, and the servants masters of their own chosen realms.
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It's a cold world, that of consumerism slavery, where the only sins are not having money and getting old.
I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
If there is anything you want to do in your life, do it before you retire, you won't have time to do it after you retire!
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people and for the people.
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them.
Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face.
They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
Wake up!
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