The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIAnd now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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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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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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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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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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Nature is neutral.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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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