Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThen mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Freedom is not an ideal
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Not to destroy but to construct
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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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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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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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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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a
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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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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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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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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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