What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIFreedom is not an ideal
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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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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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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Freedom is not an ideal
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And when we lose faith in the system
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