The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
ADLAI STEVENSON III believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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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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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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