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" American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. "
Like
American
Cannot
" Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. "
Marriage
Knowledge
Politics
" A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. "
Office
Practice
Nature
" Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. "
Culture
Asia
Trouble
" Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. "
Man
Proud
Wife
" Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. "
Successful
Mother-In-Law
Man
" Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. "
Compassion
Concern
Socialism
" Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. "
Opportunity
Life
Change
" Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. "
Really
Policy
Hat
" For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. "
History
Time
Power
" Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. "
Discussion
Dissent
Freedom
" Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. "
Contagious
Most
Man
" If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. "
I Am
Good
Hard Work
" I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. "
Congress
Compassion
More
" I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. "
More
Years
College
" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "
Years
Storm
University
" In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. "
Real Life
Important
Life
" It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. "
Enough
Democracy
Property
" It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. "
You
Left
Away
" It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "
Moral
Life
Government
" Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. "
Leadership
World
Conference
" Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. "
His
Poverty
Discrimination
" National isolation breeds national neurosis. "
Neurosis
Breeds
Isolation
" Never answer a question from a farmer. "
Answer
Question
Never
" Never give in and never give up. "
Motivational
Never
Never Give Up
" Never give up on anybody. "
Never Give Up
Anybody
Give
" Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. "
Be True
Effective
True
" The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. "
Out
Difference
Turns
" The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. "
Concern
Future
Rigid
" The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. "
Life
Friendship
Gift
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