Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIBut 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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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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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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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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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.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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