You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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And when we lose faith in the system
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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