Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.
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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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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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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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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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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 boldness to face them, face them square.
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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 time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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